On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:57:37 GMT, "Sarah" <sarah_n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
><kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 08:31:54 -0400, Amy Kwok
>> <amy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 26 May 2007 00:25:09 -0400, kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In message <8qud5317i53nhunhsdcudncv3bll3kt26f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan Brand
>>>>><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>>>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:07:15 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>>Tuesday? AND Monday, I suppose? Oh well, I don't care if the
weather
>>>>>>>goes haywire this weekend, as it is not a bank/public holiday in
the
>>>>>>>land of the heathen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But I thought you ran a post office, not a bank ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>Oh that life were that simple. Scotland loves to be different, so a
>>>>>Scottish Bank holiday, and the days that banks are not open, are not
the
>>>>>same thing. That would be far too easy. Why? Because, about ten
years
>>>>>ago, the Scottish banks decided that it was in their interests to
take
>>>>>the same holidays as the other British banks, so they do, but that
does
>>>>>not mean that the Scottish bank holidays are Scottish Bank holidays.
>>>>>Glad you asked?
>>>>
>>>>Not as strange as why Brits celebrate the Queen's birthday in June???
>>>>Not sunny enough in April?
>>>
>>>Not as strange as why Merkans go/carry on about...never mind.
>>
>> No, what?
>>
>The royal family. When I was in Raleigh, several people asked me why
Prince
>Philip isn't King Philip. In their defence, the royal couple were over on
a
>visit that week, so plastered all over the local news, which I think
>prompted the subject matter.
>
>On the other hand, at least three people I spoke to clearly had no clue
>about various things geographical, including
>* that the Alps are not in the UK
>* that you have to cross water to get from the UK to the any other part
of
>Europe
>* that there's actually quite a lot of Europe once you cross said body of
>water
>
>I might add that two of the individuals in question have degrees and
>professional jobs in a multinational company. Up until that point, I
thought
>it was a bit of a myth and/or a socioeconomic phenomenon... Although he
>didn't ask anything quite this daft, I'm mildly suspicious that one of
them
>thought "Europe" is a small country where they speak a strange English
>dialect. Or possibly an enemy. Or maybe, in a parallel Asimov universe,
it
>really is?
Forget Europe... friends and I once drove through Michigan to get to
Sault Ste Marie to get around Lake Huron. Anyhow, when we stopped for
food (mystery food would be more accurate), a number of people
commented on our university jackets we had on and asked where we went
to school. We indicated University of Guelph, in the town of Guelph,
about 200km west of Toronto. We received blank stares and "where's
that?" from every single one of them "Toronto in the province of
Ontario???". I can understand different continent, but this is a
border state, and these individuals were only 2 hours from the
Canadian border...need I say more?
Thank goodness my Merkan counterparts from our sister company have
helped redeemed our Canadian view of Merkans. My Canadian friends
that moved to the US for the "almighty US dollar" have moved back to
Canada. Once they woke up to their senses, they couldn't get out fast
enough.
>But the real problem with America is that they don't understand
chocolate.
>Unless it's in cheesecake.
I was sent a whole series of Europe vs American comparison pics and
humour...
http://www.all4humor.com/picture/funny-pictures/european-vs-american.html
>>>Not enough crap in the world?
I'd better stop here, or I may end up on the US Homeland Security
Terrorist list and be sent off to Syria or China.
>-Sazz, too much crap, not enough chocolate girl
Yup.
AmyK, pass the chocolate please.
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