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TonyGas

Please help! I'm trying to enter a competition and I don't know the answer to one of the questions: Name two U.S. states that begin with the letter P. Being a mere Brit I just don't know. Any ideas folks?


chessbot3000
Pennsylvania. and ummmmmmmm....
ATJ1968
Poo york!
chessbot3000
I'm pretty sure there's just the one, Tony. Is there a punchline to follow? 
TonyGas
Maybe someone from the other side of the pond can help. Pennsylvania... great! One more to go. Thank you.
TonyGas
Punchline...moi!?
chessbot3000

I went to an American High School. I spent 2 years "over the pond" being called "limey" and learning the American meaning of "a wet willie." I don't remember anything about the second state beginning with "P." Wikipedia confirms what my memory tells me.

I say, US citizens, is there a second one? (what, what?)


TonyGas
wet willie? is that where you lick your finger and stick it in someones ear? thats a good one, ive always had a weakness for the classics! Their must be another begining with P though. Wilkipedia must be a bit suspect.
Phelps
Two states that are common in the US are "puzzlement" and "procrastination".  Maybe they would accept that answer?Tongue out
TonyGas
Thanks Phelps and everyone for trying to help me but I have found the answer. It's PEARL HARBOR. My U.S. geography isn't that great.
chessbot3000

That is a pretty accurate description of a wet willie.

Wikipedia may be suspect; or it may be whoever set this quiz you're doing. If the answer turns out to be Puerto Rico (An unincorporated territory of the US with commonwealth status; not a state) then I imagine there'll be peaceful demonstrations from disgruntled Puerto Ricans and furious quiz fans alike. And quite right they'd be, I say.


TonightOnly
Nope, just the one. Puerto Rico is still vying for statehood, but at the moment is simply a territory. I think it is pretty cool that you guys know any of our states. You would be hard pressed to find an American that knew the name of any state from any country besides Mexico and Canada.
chessbot3000
TonyGas wrote: Thanks Phelps and everyone for trying to help me but I have found the answer. It's PEARL HARBOR. My U.S. geography isn't that great.

Pearl Harbor isn't a state - it's in Hawaii! Yell


TonyGas
chessbot3000 wrote:

Pearl Harbor isn't a state -


It was after the Japs bombed it!


chessbot3000

The punchline predicted in post 4 arrives in post 15. Cry

And then it was the peculiar kind of funny, rather than humourous. Frown


cole_cash

there is only one state in the US that starts with the letter "P" and it is "Pennsylvania". Not unless you count "Puerto Rico" which is an "unincorporated organized territory of the US" and not a "State" of the US. it is a trick question.


TonyGas
Cole cash.. thanks for that. Do your friends call you trigger?
tactician
that's some kind of trick question. try pennsylvannia and puebla. make sure you tell us if you figure it out.
rabttv
well i have to say... no american or anybody else other than a new zealender a papuan or an englishmen would know the states of australia... off by heart.. most australians get it wrong! try and pick them!
TonyGas
How many are there Darth? The trouble is someone will google it and pretend to have known.