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I decided to look that up, cos I didn't know.
Since 1990 there have been 34 new countries.
The break up of the Soviet Union led to the creation of 15 of them.
The break up of Yugoslavia created 5 more, then one of those later fractured into 3 more.
Czechoslovakia split into 2.
Germany unified.
In the rest of the world;
Namibia gained independence from South Africa, North & South Yemen unified, The Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau all gained independence from the US, Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia, East Timor became independent from Indonesia, and in 2011 South Sudan seceded from Sudan.
According to the source I found (which may not have been updated since 2011), there have been no new countries since 2011.
Despite Scotland's best efforts last year.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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UK devs up down the land voted Conservative because they didn't want to re-write their dropdown code to include Scotland.
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The river at Oxford?
Not yet I don't think.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Surely Scotland is already a country, and so is Wales. They're just not nations.
Terminology is somewhat hazy here I think. When visiting the US I always put "England" as my country of birth (because that's where I was born) but the official usually changes it to "UK". It seems they don't really want to know which country I was born in, or they think they know better than I do.
I once heard someone say on a US TV programme that he had bought his artisan kitchen tiles from a company in "North Wales, England"!
Phil
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"Leader to go glamorous: Initially gaining almost a pound" - That's dreamy! (8)
Good luck!
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Thatcher?
veni bibi saltavi
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Nope, sorry. That's incorrect.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Phew!
veni bibi saltavi
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Relaxing
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Nope, sorry.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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My logic is beautiful though..
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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super wrote: My logic is beautiful though.. Lets see it then. If that's good and no one gets this one correct then I could declare you as the winner.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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First and foremost I consider this as (CCC)^2.
"Leader to go glamorous: Initially gaining almost a pound" - That's dreamy! (8)
Leader = King
To go glamorous --> Topless
So
Leader to go glamorous = ing
gaining almost a pound = "relax" makes you gain weight
Initially ---> At the start .
Hence
RELAXING
dreamy is relaxing
cheers,
Super
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That cannot be outsmarted.
The topless bit is my favorite.
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Wow!
But the correct answer has just been given.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Just saw it. Just could not go in that direction.
My solution was also dreamy
cheers,
Super
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quixotic
glamorous - exotic
leader to go, get rid of the e
a pound - quid
almost - qui
initially gaining - stick it at the front
quixotic - dreamy
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Well done, sir!
You are up tomorrow.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Hurray, that's the rest of my day at work accounted for.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Just took a look at your CP profile page. It says "Member since Fri 24 Jan 2014", but the reputation graph is showing points since Jan 2011 (if not Dec 2007). Is that a bug?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Kind of, the points are mine, just not always as this user.
If you get banned (which I did a year and a half ago) and then rejoin with the same email address (I think) it picks up your reputation from your previous username. Everything else seems to get lost.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm hoping the hamsters have tightened that up now, after some of the babas we had last summer were getting up to the platinum level just by being banned...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Movie Quote Of The Day
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
Which movie?
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