Lower Slobbovia (was "Silicon" (geog.))

[A. Maberry]

Hear, hear!
I think Al Capp was probably creative enough to stick -ovia on to
"slob" and add "Lower" for even more comic effect without looking through
a gazetteer.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> Must we have a country here. Isn't "slob" transparent enough?
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> dInIs
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> >>Slovenia-->Slobbovia seemed so obvious that I never doubted it.
> >
> >There is also Slavonia. This is the northeasterly-to-southwesterly 'limb' of
> >horseshoe-shaped Croatia (that is, it is not Dalmatia which faces the
> >Adriatic, nor the 'top' part which nestles up against Slovenia).
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