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My globe-trotting friend tells me that the Canary Islands are very nice, but there are absolutely no canaries anywhere to be found.

He also says that the Virgin Islands are quite nice, but once again there are no canaries anywhere.
 
My globe-trotting friend tells me that the Canary Islands are very nice, but there are absolutely no canaries anywhere to be found.

He also says that the Virgin Islands are quite nice, but once again there are no canaries anywhere.
Thank goodness this pattern does not hold true in the Sandwich Islands. (Speaking of sandwiches, that is...);)
 
NOT AGAIN!!PLEASE....Someone...ANYONE!! HELP!!! No more LOBO JOKES!! THEY are soooooo bad.I'm afraid he has a lot more!
Jim
 
My globe-trotting friend tells me that the Canary Islands are very nice, but there are absolutely no canaries anywhere to be found.

He also says that the Virgin Islands are quite nice, but once again there are no canaries anywhere.

And that is because the name Canarias is related to the wild dogs found there and not the birds.
 
Thank goodness this pattern does not hold true in the Sandwich Islands. (Speaking of sandwiches, that is...);)

And since we're at it.:rolleyes: The Sandwich Islands(present Hawaii) were so named, by James Cook, in honor of the then "First Lord of the Admiralty" John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Incidently he may have been the "inventor" of what we now call Sandwiches.:D

Quoted from Wikipedia:

"The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by Pierre-Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. But Sandwich was into many bad habits, including the Hellfire club, and any story may be a creation after the fact. Lord Sandwich was a very conversant gambler, the story goes, and he did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread, a habit well-known among his gambling friends. Other people, according to this account, began to order "the same as Sandwich!", and thus the "sandwich" was born. The sober alternative to this account is provided by Sandwich's biographer N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests that Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics, and to the arts mean that the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.

Some sources say the original sandwich was a piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread. Others, like the chain Earl of Sandwich, say it was roast beef."
 
And since we're at it.:rolleyes: The Sandwich Islands(present Hawaii) were so named, by James Cook, in honor of the then "First Lord of the Admiralty" John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Incidently he may have been the "inventor" of what we now call Sandwiches.:D

Quoted from Wikipedia:

"The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by Pierre-Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. But Sandwich was into many bad habits, including the Hellfire club, and any story may be a creation after the fact. Lord Sandwich was a very conversant gambler, the story goes, and he did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread, a habit well-known among his gambling friends. Other people, according to this account, began to order "the same as Sandwich!", and thus the "sandwich" was born. The sober alternative to this account is provided by Sandwich's biographer N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests that Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics, and to the arts mean that the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.

Some sources say the original sandwich was a piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread. Others, like the chain Earl of Sandwich, say it was roast beef."


And that is the reason you will never go hungry in the desert.


I’m still laughing at the OP’s entry.
 
I keep seeing boneless chicken wings. My question is how do they de bone them?
They don't debone them, they raise them that way.
The farmer who came up with the idea tried to patent the chickens, but was told they didn't have a leg to stand on! :o

Boneless_Chicken_Ranch_Far_Side.jpg
 
And... The Virgin Islands were named after the Legend of St Ursula and the 11.000 virgins(a Catholic thing:D) Nothing to do with whomever inhabited the islands.:D

I must bow to the superior knowledge of our esteemed member. I can also strike off that Virgin Islands trip from my "bucket list" now because it hardly seems worth the effort or expense.

Best regards!
 
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