Can we all agree the Revolutionary War was won at Ocracoke Inlet?
It was the only area the Royal Navy couldn't blockade because the treacherous shoals made it too dangerous for their warships.
No supplies, no victory.
We owe our independence to Ocracoke.
Don't even think about disagreeing with me about this.
Ok?
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table scene with the little dog. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocracoke_Inlet
Ocracoke was one of the first inlets in the Outer Banks. The inlet was host to the party of colonists who made it up to Roanoke Island in 1585. It became the most important inlet to deliver goods to the mainland, especially to New Bern and Bath. It is legend the Pirate Captain Blackbeard was killed in nearby Teach's Hole, on November 22, 1718. During the American Revolutionary War, many supplies that helped General George Washington came through this inlet. It became so important that residents started to inhabit the southern island, Portsmouth Island. At one time, Portsmouth Island was the most densely populated place on the whole Outer Banks. After the great Gale of 1846, when Hatteras Inlet and Oregon Inlet opened, Ocracoke Inlet lost its prominence. Extensive shoaling made the commercial boats travel to deeper inlets.
In his book A New Voyage to Carolina, published in 1709, John Lawson (explorer) wrote the following about Ocracoke Inlet: "Ocacock is the best Inlet and Harbour yet in this Country; and has 13 Foot at Low-water upon the Bar. There are two Channels; one is but narrow, and lies close aboard the South Cape; the other in the Middle, viz. between the Middle Ground, and the South Shoar, and is above half a Mile wide. The Bar itself is but half a Cable's Length over, and then you are in 7 or 8 Fathom Water; a good Harbour. The Course into the Sound is N.N.W. At High-water, and Neap-tides, here is 18 Foot Water. It lies S.W. from Hatteras Inlet. Lat. 35d 8".[citation needed]
I agree, scarletwoman, ocra flavored coke sounds hideous.
My Norwegian ancestors came to this country much later than that. And they had the sense to settle in beautiful Minnesota. Of course, we do have lutefisk - fish flavored with stringed instruments.
remnants of which are still in use today.
I won't 
Didn't know this so I'll have to do a duckduckgo and find out about it
Okay, this is actually a reference to Robert Sobel's fascinating counter-factual novel from 1971, "For Want of a Nail". In fact, this book has been so influential in its genre, that an entire wiki's been dedicated to it!
http://fwoan.wikia.com/wiki/Sobel_Wiki
If you become interested further, I highly suggest you take a peek at a fanon spin-off that was tried some years back(and it's still going!), called "For All Nails".
http://kebe.com/for-all-nails/
Just sayin'
I think there must be mermaids there to lure in the ships.
After all, how can he deliver the US to the Nazi Socialist Caliphate if the US never exists! And we know he has a time machine because of the birth notices he planted in Hawaiian newspapers!
And he says you're absolutely correct.
I won't call you a dumbass because I know that's your schtick and I'm damned determined to find my own.
No one wants to meet me here.
