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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU!ckp2n
  2. From: ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Christina Powell)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.irc
  4. Subject: Re: From the Commonwealth to 53rd State
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.203929.6902@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 20:39:29 GMT
  7. References: <WRIGHT.92Dec23124535@tsunami.cs.odu.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  9. Organization: University of Virginia
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  11.  
  12. wright@tsunami.cs.odu.edu  writes:
  13. > In article <phone.724965258@coombs> phone@coombs.anu.edu.au (matthew green) writes:
  14. > 
  15. >    avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
  16. > 
  17. >    >So when does Australia become the 53rd state ?
  18. > 
  19. >    Become ?   Isn't Australia already part of the oh, so amazing United
  20. >    States of America ?
  21. > 
  22. > You can join the United States' Manifest Destiny if you wish, but there is
  23. > only  _one_  Commonwealth in the US and that is VIRGINIA.
  24. > 
  25. Um, I think Massachussetts is also a commonwealth.  I could be
  26. wrong, but I doubt it. :)
  27.