Jim couldn’t help it because he would have to not be human to not have opinions like the rest of us. Really though…it was only a joke and not designed to stir up political discussion, not any serious ones anyway. I thought I’d share some good humor. I’m a person who likes to tell and hear jokes as frequently as I can.
Would anyone care for a bottled water…this next round is on me.
I wonder what traditional music and dances come from there.
Oh good grief, HW. I have a 12 pack of Newcastle if you want one. 
Bottled water…what planet are you from anyway? 
For the record, HampshireWhistler is a friend of mine (in real life), and a great guy. If anything I said was thought to be snarky, it wasn’t intentional. Well, actually it was, because he just recently bought a Burke, and I’m not happy with the fact that he bought one before I did.
Lapland, a sparsely populated province of Finland, is traditionally thought
to be the home of Santa Claus. So I suppose the indigenous
culture consists mostly of shopping malls and musack.
I love shopping malls. If I can persuade the
Laps to let me busk in 'em, I may never come home!
My goodness the skin is getting a little thin around here.
Well, really. I don’t know how many times Joseph and I have posted links to the ancillary forum, and those directed to it DON’T EVEN SHOW UP. Not a peep.
Figure that out.
I went there and you didn’t even ask me to! That’s the kind of nice fellow I am.
And Izz, I’ve had a Burke for years. My best whistle!
Here, you can have an “Izz isn’t speaking to me” button too
Nano, I’ve been signed up on the other board for quite a while now. I even have a whole 3 posts over there. Do I get brownie points for that?
You’re not the sort of person - which is a good thing - I’ve been trying to nudge in that direction.
So, no.
Darn it I could become one of those people, if it would help. 
Darlin’, you don’t need brownie points when your avatar looks like that.
I wouldn’t say naive. You can’t catch everything, so of course people are going to miss it now and again. It’s…unofficial. Sort of. But there are a fair number of links to that board posted here and there and no doubt they will continue to be re-posted as need arises. Nevertheless, the links are provided for the sake of those that most ought to post there, yet often they don’t join up. Curious, isn’t it.
Don Quixote de Nano y Hedrón