> 1 the tcc

Traveler's Century Club

> 2 the su iirc &

Soviet Union; if I recall correctly

> 3 the ref to soap

The best sitcom (besides perhaps Seinfeld) ever made which
always started with that false line :-)

> & i know from our experience to date that they will be interesting
> or you wouldnt have mentioned them

Not really this time.

> also i dont know what it is that causes a territory that is not already
> generally recognized as a sovereign country to acquire its own iso code
> but it would appear at least that some aspiration is prerequisite on the
> part of someone in that place or elsewhere
> aspiration either to political independence or well just to creating the
> freakin diglyph
> presumably for some other reason
>
> antarctica or aq comes to mind as a particularly enigmatic example

As does bv and sj, which should be happy under no, I suppose. One
would think that every nugget of land wants to be covered by some
code, and I guess these nuggets are detatched enough from no to
warrant their own recognition. But if we have sj, why don't we have
one for the Azores? I think the whole thing is a bit inconsistent
really.

> perhaps means or implies that all these & any similar such entities are
> presently involved in satisfactory enough associations that they do not
> desire nor warrant such special & separate national treatments &
> recognitions

I was always under the impression that it was geographical, not
so much political, but there are counterexamples on both sides.

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randy "the mapsurfer"