Peace Process

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Today I made steps to further world peace.

The website for my work, as I have previously mentioned, has a form for those who would like to leave a question or comment. In the address section, there is a drop down menu for selecting which country you are from.

Currently the list includes 63 countries.

Seeing as I have personally been to 21 and I know I have not been to a third of the countries on this fair globe, I realized that there is a problem.

Actually, I didn't realize there was a problem until a writer noted that Austria wasn't on the list. I can understand Monaco not being there... even Eritrea, but Austria?

So I enquired.

We should know by now, that when we enquire about whether we can make a change, it becomes our duty to fix it.

So I got to figure out which countries to add to the list.

Fair friend, do you want to decide how many countries and which ones should be on the list?

I feel like I am faced with the challenge of the UN and the Olympic counsel and then the me in the other department passes by and makes some snide remark about how if I list more countries, I will be begging for more letters that end "P.S. Send money."

So I doubled the list. The webmaster still has to approve the lengthy file, but I just want to appologize to all of the potential writers from Andorra, San Marino, Georgia, and every other nation-state that didn't quite make the cut... I have nothing against you, your country was just assigned heads and the penny landed tails.

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slowlane said…
We now have 111 countries on our list! Woo hoo!
6:05 PM
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