Anyone here a Virginian?

[Reel]

What is the deal with the whole commonwealth and not a state thing? Should we only have 49 starson the flag since it is not a state?

 

[venk]

ban

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Reel
What is the deal with the whole commonwealth and not a state thing? Should we only have 49 starson the flag since it is not a state?

We're not the only Commonwealth. I believe that Massachusettes, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania are also Commonwealths.

 

[rudder]

I lost mine at age 15.

 

[imported_Pablo]

I plan on saving until marriage, then, when I am more mature financially, move on to the Charlottesville area.

 

[CVSiN]

Virgin no defiantly not =P

sorry even if I was from Virginia Id lie and say I was from Texas or something!

oh wait...


well anyway one of my main reasons for getting out of the Navy when I did was they were relocating all our squadrons of F/A-18s to Oceana from Sunny beautiful Florida...

every single time we went to Norfolk it always seemed to be gray and nasty and nothing to do..

there was no way in hell I was gonna move there permanantly...

 

[Schadenfroh]

It is a state, just like any other. They might just use a different name, does not make it any less of a state. They get taxed, represented, and treated just like any other state.

 

[Linflas]

The transition occurred in 1776, when the need arose to express a change in their legal status consistent with the Revolutionary War. Kentucky was a county of Virginia at this time, but chose to retain the Commonwealth descriptor when it became a separate state. While the term "commonwealth" has the same legal and economic meaning as "state", the four regions that chose to designate themselves commonwealths probably did so as a reference to the earlier Commonwealth period in England which ended in 1660, when that nation was not ruled by a king.

Commonwealth (United States)

 

[czech09]

Originally posted by: rudder
I lost mine at age 15.

Lmao this might be quite good. I could see serveral people responding to this question instead lol...

 

[Maximus96]

i was a late bloomer at 16

 

[Hecubus2000]

Sure, I'll explain.

They keep you common by taking all of your wealth.

 

[Babbles]

Don't you get like 72 Virginians in heaven if you blow yourself up at a bus stop?

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: Babbles
Don't you get like 72 Virginians in heaven if you blow yourself up at a bus stop?

Mmm... Quaker Oats for eternity! :thumbsup:

 

[SaltBoy]

dp

 

[manlymatt83]

I lost mine at age 15.

Yeah I read it like this too!