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closeupready

(29,503 posts) Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:43 PM Mar 2014

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This week's dumb word now EVERYWHERE which no one ever heard before:

stan(s).

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This week's dumb word now EVERYWHERE which no one ever heard before: (Original Post) closeupready Mar 2014 OP

Marsh? Electric Monk Mar 2014 #1

Well, yeah, lol - and for old geezers like me, Laurel: closeupready Mar 2014 #3

Oh. you're talking about the plane. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #2

Yeah, in terms of "it's in one of the stans" closeupready Mar 2014 #5

That's been common shorthand for the former Soviet republics of Central Asia... Spider Jerusalem Mar 2014 #4

Okay, but just this week now, it's almost literally EVERYWHERE - military jargon closeupready Mar 2014 #6

I've said "Stans" for years re: former USSR, and I'm really NOT in the military! WinkyDink Mar 2014 #9

That's cause nobody knows how to spell 'em (or pronounce them)... countryjake Mar 2014 #7

Here we go with this Stan stuff again........... wandy Mar 2014 #8

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)

1. Marsh?

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:45 PM

Mar 2014

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

3. Well, yeah, lol - and for old geezers like me, Laurel:

Reply to Electric Monk (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:52 PM

Mar 2014

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)

2. Oh. you're talking about the plane.

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:51 PM

Mar 2014

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

5. Yeah, in terms of "it's in one of the stans"

Reply to LiberalAndProud (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:53 PM

Mar 2014

Do people realize they are talking about a land area larger in scope than the continental United States??

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

4. That's been common shorthand for the former Soviet republics of Central Asia...

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:52 PM

Mar 2014

since at least the Cold War (I assume you DO in fact mean Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, et al). The first time I heard that has to've been 25 years ago (and I'm not that old; I would have been about 11).

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

6. Okay, but just this week now, it's almost literally EVERYWHERE - military jargon

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:55 PM

Mar 2014

is not typically adopted in the vernacular; and even if so, 'stan' is only this week now being talked about in just about every single story. Kind of makes you wonder if the MIC is laying groundwork for another war?

Anyway, this topic is not 100% serious, was just venting a bit. Cheers.

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)

9. I've said "Stans" for years re: former USSR, and I'm really NOT in the military!

Reply to closeupready (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 06:52 PM

Mar 2014

countryjake

(8,554 posts)

7. That's cause nobody knows how to spell 'em (or pronounce them)...

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 06:13 PM

Mar 2014

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Tajikistan

and our old familiar friend,

Afghanistan

wandy

(3,539 posts)

8. Here we go with this Stan stuff again...........

Reply to closeupready (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 06:50 PM

Mar 2014

Must be around here someplace.

Look at just right and you get a free lapel pin.

Why did this darn fool have to start it with this Stan stuff.

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