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016d57e1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @385479fd @3409b63c Thought of friends in Moncton when I saw the track. US news maps always act like there’s nothing up there. Frankly, yesterday they actually said Maine was in the path ‘but New England may not feel it’ WTF 😂
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc07995b I literally grew up in Moncton — MHS grad! — and I’ve never heard this phrase before. “Friends in Moncton”. LOL (At least you didn’t spell it “Monckton”. Full points.) @385479fd
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc07995b One of my best friends lives in Maine; a few years ago he told of a road trip he & his family took in the states; in someplace like (gonna randomly pick) New Mexico, a state trooper who’d stopped him & looked at his driver’s licence said “Maine?!? Is that in the United States?” @385479fd
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016d57e1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3409b63c @385479fd I believe it. I hail from the sticks, Aroostook County. South of Bangor, they point to I-95N and say ‘nothing beyond but loons’ 😂
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc07995b Ah, the land of the Bangor & Aroostook RR. @385479fd
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016d57e1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3409b63c @385479fd “Where cellphone service fears to tread,” I once wrote many moons ago. A welcome respite from the always-connected world, I add.
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc07995b civilization: “plumbing, roads, electric, and deficits”. @385479fd
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Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc07995b Also, to be clear, “national” news orgs’ — based in Toronto — also act like there’s nothing here. @385479fd