Where is everybody from?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I'm from Minnesota, USA on the Northwest edge of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul).  I can be in Wisconsin in about an hour, Iowa in about 2 hours and the Dakotas in about 4 hours and Canada is about 6 hours North.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Do you know Lester Nygaard? 

 

Seriously, if you've watched Fargo (the recent mini-series), what did you think of the accents, particularly Martin Freeman's?

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Do you know Lester Nygaard? 

 

Seriously, if you've watched Fargo (the recent mini-series), what did you think of the accents, particularly Martin Freeman's?

 

 

I watched the movie & didn't know the mini-series existed until I watched the Emmy's.  I felt that if Fargo won an award it still felt like a win for Sherlock because of Martin.  I have an aunt who speaks with a milder form of the Scandinavian accent used in the movie.  I might have to see if I can find the mini-series to watch it. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Amazon has it for download, plus DVDs & Blu-rays.

 

The setting and plot are different from the movie (which I've never seen), but the tone is apparently the same.  The acting is all really good, but I thought Martin Freeman's performance was especially fine.

 

[Auri]

Hello. I'm from Colombia, South America. Brand new fan of Sherlocks. Kind of obsessed actually. It's just perfection.

 

Anyways, I'm happy to have found a group of fellow Sherlockians. And I hope to have a lot of interesting conversions around here.

 

Type to you later

 

-A

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Welcome to the Forum, Auri. Brand new fans are always fun and very much welcome and yes, "obsession" fits this band of Sherlockians very well and we specialize in interesting conversations so I'm sure you'll fit right in.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Hola!  to the boards.  And obsessed people fit in here quite easily    Also it's near impossible for a conversation to not be interesting on here.  We have fun *has evil sinister grin that her hubby does on her face* (similar to Moriarty's smile as he is telling the tale of Sir Boasts-A-Lot)

[jesskayding]

Hello. I'm from Colombia, South America. Brand new fan of Sherlocks. Kind of obsessed actually. It's just perfection.

 

Anyways, I'm happy to have found a group of fellow Sherlockians. And I hope to have a lot of interesting conversions around here.

 

Type to you later

 

-A

 

Welcome Auri! Happy postings!

[BBally]

I live in the Zamalek area, which is one of the biggest parts of Cairo. 

[Sheridan Huan Jezreel Su]

Devon, Britain

[Tunguska]

I'm from the Netherlands, the middle part but closer to the German border than to the sea. Still only 1 hour's drive away from the coast though, the Netherlands is tiny!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh my, so it is -- less than half the size of Indiana.  That must make it really easy to get around in.

 

I once drove from western New York state to Indiana (about 600 miles) with a friend from the Netherlands.  Somewhere in Ohio, he said, "Back home, we'd be in Italy by now!"

 

[Tunguska]

I had a Brazillian colleague who told me she lived close to Sao Paulo because it was 3 hours of driving from her home town. I was astonished, when I drive for three hours I'm in a different country (potentially having passed another country or two)!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

If I drive 3 hours east or south I can be in a different state and half or more of the way through them. I have to drive at least 4 hrs if I head west to get to a different state and closer to 7hrs north to get to Canada (which I almost did just over a week ago).

[Carol the Dabbler]

Three hours in various directions would easily take me into Kentucky, Ohio, or Illinois.  Michigan would be more like four hours, I think, and maybe five for Wisconsin, because Chicago is in the way.

 

[sherlockandjohn]

You guys (Carol, SherlockedCAMPer and many others) live in a huge country. It takes me two hours to get to the Northern-most part of Denmark, 3 hours South to the German border, an hour to the West coast, and 5 hours to the Eastern-most place - which is on an island.

 

No wonder Danes travel so much abroad.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

The US is about 4,500 KM across (East to West) and 2,660 KM North to South at the longest distances for the continental (contiguous) portion.  Plus we have Alaska (to drive there requires going through Canada) and Hawai'i which add even more distance.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I believe I've read that the US is about the same size as Europe.

 

[Arcadia]

Oh, we're big, all right. Because we eat so much beef.

[Boton]

I'm from Ohio in the U.S., about two hours from Carol if I calculate right.  

 

This summer, my husband and I drove to Key West, which is at the very tip of the peninsula of Florida.  It was a 21 hour drive that took us two and a half days, and that was considered a reasonable drive to make to go on vacation.  (We were staying an extended period, so we wanted to have our car and lots of stuff with us, so that's why we didn't fly.)

 

About halfway through Georgia on day two, I'm driving and my husband naps.  Several hours later, he wakes up and I'm still driving Georgia.  I told him that this was a ridiculous scale on which to build a country.  

[sittything]

Ugh, Georgia is a nightmare when you're going north-south.  So is Pennsylvania when you're headed east-west, or as my mother affectionately calls it, Pennshellvania.  I live in Eastern PA and it takes about 8 hours to drive to my hometown in Ohio.  Of that 8, it takes about 5 hours just to get out of Pennsylvania.  I've always argued that states should be smaller just so it gives you the illusion of making progress.

[Boton]

Ugh, Georgia is a nightmare when you're going north-south.  So is Pennsylvania when you're headed east-west, or as my mother affectionately calls it, Pennshellvania.  I live in Eastern PA and it takes about 8 hours to drive to my hometown in Ohio.  Of that 8, it takes about 5 hours just to get out of Pennsylvania.  I've always argued that states should be smaller just so it gives you the illusion of making progress.

 

 

How true.  I was muttering darkly about Georgia being the "Pennsylvania of the South" when I was doing that leg of the drive.

 

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is like one of Dante's circles of hell.  You just think you're never going to escape.  (Apologies to anyone from PA -- the rest of the state is lovely!)

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Minnesota is about as bad. I live near Minneapolis and took 2.5 hours to get to Duluth and another 3.5 hours to get within 7 miles of the Canadian border. If I wanted to get to the northen most part of my state, I'd be driving close to 8 hours and then hopping a plane or boat or driving through Canada. And there is still close to 2 hours of drive time south of me to get to the Iowa border. East to west in the state is only bad for drive time in the upper third or the lower part of the lower third of the state (4+ hrs). We look kind of like a coffee pot (old fashioned or camper style).

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm from Ohio in the U.S., about two hours from Carol if I calculate right. <snip> About halfway through Georgia on day two, I'm driving and my husband naps.  Several hours later, he wakes up and I'm still driving Georgia.  I told him that this was a ridiculous scale on which to build a country.  

That's how Alex and I feel about Ohio!

 

We keep thinking how much shorter our drive to [anywhere east of us] would be if Ohio were moved to, oh say somewhere off the coast of Florida (which would undeniably improve the weather -- well, except for those pesky hurricanes) and then someone would put a drawstring around the edge of the resulting hole and pucker it closed.

 

Minnesota is about as bad....

About as bad?! Minnesota is *expletive* HUGE! And that's after you actually GET there!

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

It does take 1 hour (during non-rush hour on dry roads) to get from 1 end of the Twin Cities to the other. Double that for rush hour and triple if it snowed.