Officials heckling officials

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

That would be Alburg, Vermont. I have gone through there many times. I've even stopped there a few times. I think they officially added an 'h' to the town name to sound more archaic. Bridges from Swanton, VT; North Hero, VT; and Rouses Point, NY, are the other access points.

I new you would respond to this one. Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I knew you would respond to this one. Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.

Did it talk about the Haskell Opera House? The stage is in Canada and most of the seats are in the US. Or Ft Blunder near Rouses Point? It was built NORTH of the border by mistake.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Did it talk about the Haskell Opera House? The stage is in Canada and most of the seats are in the US. Or Ft Blunder near Rouses Point? It was built NORTH of the border by mistake.

I know they talked about the library, don't remember if they brought up the opera house.

Ft. Blunder was on the show. I missed part of that segment and was a little lost as to what they were talking about.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I know they talked about the library, don't remember if they brought up the opera house.

Ft. Blunder was on the show. I missed part of that segment and was a little lost as to what they were talking about.

The library is on the first floor. The Opera House is on the upper floors. The border goes through that building and a few others on that street. Revolutionary War era Ft Blunder was on Lake Champlain at the entrance into the US, except that it was built on the wrong side of the border.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Welpe

West Carolina.

During college football season I keep hearing scores for East Carolina. What is the capital of East Carolina?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Conversely, there's an Canadian island -- Campobello, New Brunswick, that is only accessible via a bridge in Maine, or a ferry via another New Brunswick island. If you take the bridge, you have to drive another hour through eastern Maine to get to mainland New Brunswick.

Further proof that the New England saying, "You can't get there from here.", is true.

[Judtech]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I new you would respond to this one. Saw it on "How the States Were Created". There was also a long segment about Derby Line, VT in that show.

That was a great show!!! My only issue with it was there was so MUCH information, you need to watch it a ton to get all the info

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

More trivia:

How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile south, 1 mile west, then 1 mile north, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?

The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Okay, how about this one.
How many points can you travel 1 mile south, one mile north, one mile east, and end up where you started?

Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right.

Incorrect.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Conversely, there's an Canadian island -- Campobello, New Brunswick -- that is only accessible via a bridge in Maine, or a ferry via another New Brunswick island. If you take the bridge, you have to drive another hour through eastern Maine to get to mainland New Brunswick. (Gap knows the road.) I've often wondered if Canada would take the Northwest Angle in a trade for Campobello.

Yep. Roosevelt, the one on the dime, supposedly picked up polio while swimming at his summer place there. The bridge was built from Lubec, ME, in 1965. You go back in time when going from Campobello to Lubec. Literally, because NB is in the Atlantic Time Zone. My HS team won the inaugural Eastern Maine Class C Soccer Championship at Lubec HS back in the day.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.

That'll work, too, but there's another set of points that works as well.