Poll: How many countries have you been in?

I've been in the US, Canada, Israel, and changed planes in England.

US, Canada, France, Bahamas. Not very well-travelled.� I really want to hit scotland, england wales, ireland. Dunno when or if that'll happen.

US, Canada, France, and England.

US, Canada, England, and China. Though I guess Japan too if you count the layover from the US to China, but alas, I did not because I wasn't even sure if I stopped in Japan since I was 4 at the time.

US, Canada, and the British West Indies

US, Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, Germany, and Japan. All I need is Italy to get my All Axis Card ;)

US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Japan, England, France, Wales, and um...that's about it.

Does Wales count? Is Wales a country? What is Wales? I don't think the Welsh know. Scotland has its own parliament so I think I'd count Scotland but not Wales.

Oh geez, I just editted my post because of Scotland, now I potentially have to count Wales too? you'd think this would have been an easy question!

If you have ever been in Wales, you wouldn't be asking that question. :)

Hmm. I just counted the whole UK. But that would definitely bump me from my 6 up to 8... very tempting...

(US, Canada, Mexico, France, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales...)

to quote someone I know (I forget who it was):

"America is a country made up of states. The UK is a state made up of countries."

us, canada, mexico, israel. france & netherlands if you count plane stopovers. also, i been where what will hopefully be a future palestinian state.

US, Canada, Bahamas, Spain, Ireland, Mexico and Jamaica... and actually, do the british virgin islands count?

I'd count them because you need a state issued birth certificate or passport for proof of citizenship to go there...like you couldn't just stumble in, ya know??

So I'd say you're at 8.� =)

Us, Canada and Japan :D

Boston is starting to feel like a different country. everyone stares at us.

Same three, and compared to Ohio, Boston is different country. How long do you think it'll be before you have the accent?

I'd wager not too long.
I already find myself dropping the occasional "R" and saying "Wicked" a bit more often than I plan to ;-)

As long as you don't say "ayup..."

And wicked will probably be picked up. Words get picked up much quicker and more easily than full accents.

That and "Wicked" holds a useful place in the language. It ads flexability to a statement.

It's not like "soda" which just replaces another equally useful word ;-)

I'm sure I (or Sheryl) will never have the full, thick, new england accent (which sounds almost British) but bits of it do creep in.

Then again, I've always talked oddly ;-)

pop is just a word for those people who can't remember all four letters of soda. ;-)

I can remember all four letters, it's just the direction.

Is it Ados or Soda, I can never remember.

Pop solves that problem, and it's onomatopoeia, which is always a good thing!

and it's onomatopoeia

it is? maybe when you're referring to a balloon breaking...

if we were talking onomatopoeic cans, wouldn't soda be called crickhiss?

See, I don't know that there's a new england accent as much as a boston accent.

and THAT accent is just dumb. :D

Well...I think it's more than Boston. Like...maybe Coastal New England. Because RI and Maine and such have a variation.

Hrm... yeah, that's true.

But the RI accent is quite a bit different....
As is the maine one, actually.

But the coastal areas do just generally seem more likely to have pronounced accents. Maybe it's from the old shipping trades and such, contact with folks from overseas and up the canadian coast. :) (of course this is all speculation pulled from my ass. If I actually looked it up I could probably have facts and not speculation!)

My uncle in Maine has the big-time New England accent. You know, "Bah Hahbah" and all that. I couldn't differentiate between it and a Boston or other accent, though.

Hee! Bill, what a great icon!

Yeah, the Boston accents can be a bit too nasally for me. Then again, I'm used to the New York accents.

Wicked doesn't just add to a statement... sometimes, it's a statement itself.

I don't think she will. :)� My sister lived there for a bunch of years and never developed a hint of it.

Does CT have an accent? I don't think so. But if I'm one of 'em I might not know. :)

Does that mean I might not get the Chicago accent? Curses!

I don't think CT has an accent, but I've only really been to Middletown, which is overrun with other accents.

You're in Boston now? Damn, I gotta buy you lunch!

Oh, and I've been in 2. US and Canada. And Canada was just this year.

US, Canada, Israel, France, Spain. So far.

Well, those first two ;-)
Also The Netherlands (well, the plane landed in Amsterdam), Austria, Lechtestein, Switzerland, and Germany.

Hrm, and I voted wrong, because I can't count.
*goes up to the poll and changes "8-12" to "7"*

US, Canada, Mexico. yay north america! (I'll break free to europe or asia one of these years)

me too. but Spain is veryvery likely this July. *crosses crossables*

I assume the whole British empire counts as 1 country? Like, can I not get separate points for the British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, Scotland, and England? (Because I really want to be in that 8-12 bracket!)

[Edit: Ooh! I forgot to count Belgium! I'm in the 8-12 range anyway!]

US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, BV Islands/Gibraltar/Scotland/England.

US, Canada, Italy, Israel, England, and Scotland.

ooops...i chose 5, but it's -actually- 6 for moi~the US, Canada, Spain, Bahamas, The Dominican Republic{thrice there} & Mexico.

i don't remember where we changed planes or IF we did when i went to spain, so i won't count that.

US, Canada, Mexico, Venezuala, Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles), Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, Australia.

Mostly�for work...so while my passport's got a lot of stamps, I've had precious little spare time to explore all these wonderful places.� I know the roads between the airport, hotel, and office very well!

I think you'll find the Scots would want you to count their fair country separately from England ;).

US, Mexico, England, Scotland, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey.

It's so stupid that I haven't been to Canada yet. I'm coming up there, I swear.

Canadia, US, France, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal... I forgot Portugal.

. I was nine. I'm entitled to forgetting Portugal.

Higher than I thought it'd be. U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Monaco.

I just saw the Scotland note. the CIA world factbook seems to consider it not a separate country, but wikipedia does consider it a separate one. It's a bit of a gray area. if Scotland is a separate country, then I'm at 13, it just depends on how you look at it. not being Scottish or English, I'm not the one to answer the question. :) okay, i'm editting again. you'd think this would be easy. apparently Wales and Scotland are considered separate countries, so i'm at 14, unless something bizarre comes up.

US, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong (England), Hong Kong (China), Indonisia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, UAE, Bahrain, Philapines.

Canada, US, Italy and Greece.

my 4 are more sad.

US, Italy, Canada, and Mexico.

Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong before it was part of China, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Ireland, Spain, England and Japan if you count plane stopovers, and Macao, an island near Hong Kong that belongs to Portugal.

US, Canada, Jamaica, England, France, Germany (those three were layovers going to...) India...

Has anyone here who isn't jewish been to Israel?

US, Canada, Aruba, Dominican Republic, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Bahamas

Spain, Italy, France, England

Israel, Jordan, Egypt

America, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Belize, Grand Cayman, England, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Austria, and, this summer, Cameroon and probably a couple other countries in Western/Central Africa.

One. The United States. Go me go!

How come there's no 0 option for those who were born on ships and have spent their whole lives on international waters? Huh? HUH???

Insensitive clod.

Because as anyone conversant with maritime law knows, a ship is considered the sovereign territory of the country it is registered in. Are you friends with Phillip Nolan?

only five. us, canada, ireland, italy, germany.

Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Switzerland, Austria (hey, we had to pay extra to cross it on the train, so it counts), Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland (does Northern Ireland count as a separate country?), Hong Kong, Tai Pei, Vietnam.

so 14, 15ish?...next i want to go to Japan

So who is going to make the master list of all the nations visited by Fruheads?

um. you.

um no. My job is to have ideas, it is always someone else's job to do the actual work. I am a natural born committee member.

I refute this nonsense with the evidence given by you in your latest livejournal entry.

:P

Now see what you made me do when I should have been getting ready for SMAF?

1. Aruba
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Bahamas
5. Bahrain
6. Belgium
7. Belize
8. British Virgin Islands
9. British West Indies
10. Canada
11. China
12. Croatia
13. Czech Republic
14. Dominican Republic
15. Egypt
16. England (UK)
17. France
18. Germany
19. Grand Cayman
20. Greece
21. Guatemala
22. India
23. Indonesia
24. Ireland
25. Israel
26. Israel
27. Italy
28. Jamaica
29. Japan
30. Jordan
31. Liechtenstein
32. Malaysia
33. Malta
34. Mexico
35. Monaco
36. Netherlands
37. Netherlands Antilles
38. Panama
39. Philippines
40. Poland
41. Portugal
42. Scotland (UK)
43. Singapore
44. South Korea
45. Spain
46. St. Maarten
47. St. Thomas
48. Switzerland
49. Taiwan
50. Thailand
51. Turkey
52. United Arab Emirates
53. United States
54. Vietnam
55. Wales (UK)

Now how about in frequency of mention order?

you put israel twice. does that put me up one more country, then?

Yes it is all part of the Internation Jewish Banking Conspiracy.

Dan Bern has a song about two Israels?

canada, us, mexico, germany, switzerland, france, sweden, denmark, italy, england.

us, canada, belize, england, france, germany, italy, the vatican (hey! it's a sovereign entity, right?), south korea, japan, senegal, morocco, namibia, south africa, mauritius, bahamas... and 17 if you count a stopover in amsterdam, but really? if you don't leave the airport, I don't think that honestly counts.

I've been to the US, Canada, Mexico, Iceland, UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland, England), France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Monaco, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria...plus St. Pierre-et-Miquelon and Kallaalit Nunaat (Greenland)...almost Guernsey (excursion was cancelled). Gotta love those cruises. So that's 12+2.