On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:57:37 GMT, "Sarah" <sarah_n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>
>>>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.
Even *I* know that. It must've been Raleigh, NC, right?
> 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
eek
>* that you have to cross water to get from the UK to the any other part
of
>Europe
eeeekk
>* that there's actually quite a lot of Europe once you cross said body of
>water
hmmmm
>
>I might add that two of the individuals in question have degrees and
>professional jobs in a multinational company.
Just shows that a lot of people with degrees don't know their a** from
a hole in the ground.
> 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.
Maybe you were in the Ozarks. What's kind of disappointing is that
I've tried to get into a couple of newsgroups devoted to Southern
Thought, but I'm finding out that is a contradiction in terms. They
can't stop arguing about Yanks vs.Confederates.
> Or possibly an enemy. Or maybe, in a parallel Asimov universe, it
>really is?
>
>But the real problem with America is that they don't understand
chocolate.
Au contraire, mon petit fille. I just got through eating a square of
Seattle Chocolate Co's Extremely Dark. This afternoon I had a Mocha
Java which kept me from my afternoon nap.
>Unless it's in cheesecake.
>
>>>Not enough crap in the world?
>>
>-Sazz, too much crap, not enough chocolate girl
We could have a meet and pool all of our chocolate and judge.
KS
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