See, that’s why I said “continental US” 😛 Otherwise we’d have to include Alaska Time, too.
Um, last I looked Alaska was on the continent… :coolgrin:
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Subscribe [4]#16 / Mar 28, 2008 3:32pm
See, that’s why I said “continental US” 😛 Otherwise we’d have to include Alaska Time, too.
Um, last I looked Alaska was on the continent… :coolgrin:
#17 / Mar 28, 2008 3:39pm
Um, last I looked Alaska was on the continent… :coolgrin:
Yes, but in the military it’s not in the CONUS: CONtinental United States.
#18 / Mar 28, 2008 11:23pm
I always thought CONUS meant CONtiguous United States. Huh.
There’s no accounting for the federal gummint though. Federal employees in Alaska get what they call the TCOLA—territorial cost-of-living allowance. Folks up there think Elmer Fed treats ‘em like a territory in other, less benevolent ways…
#19 / Mar 28, 2008 11:30pm
Hmm… I saw that in the wikipedia entry, although they still attributed it to continental. I’ll say that you’re right, though, since I don’t know directly, just what my director has mentioned (fuzzy memory), which is why I even know the CONUS thing anyways.
😊
Alaska and Siberia can’t be that different.
#20 / Mar 29, 2008 7:03pm
Oh, I have no doubt Elmer Fed calls it CONtinental rather than CONtiguous. Having a federal employee wife I can testify that what’s sensible and what’s procedure are almost matter and antimatter.
#21 / Mar 29, 2008 7:07pm
No joke! We have some DHS stuff at our university that we were having to follow, and for the first six months or so, it seemed to be based on “movie-plot threat” scenarios.
Maybe CONUS originated before Alaska was a state/territory? Maybe it’s not REALLY part of the continent?
Who knows? Maybe “alaska” doesn’t really exist… :shut:
:ahhh: :zip:
#22 / Mar 29, 2008 9:17pm
Maybe it’s not REALLY part of the continent?
Some people look at it on a map of the U.S. and think it’s out somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
Then there was the airline rep who gave a caller a difficult time because she wanted to fly between the Lower 48 and Alaska, and the rep assumed Alaska is a foreign country.
There are Alaskans who wish it were.
#23 / Mar 29, 2008 9:41pm
Oh, like the Republic of Texas?
I suppose the separatists in California and Florida (the other big states beside Ohio and Illinois) are probably the ones that want to take those states back to Mexico (Texas is there, too).
That is too funny. Alaska is a foreign country… :sick: