Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

On May 11, 8:14=EF=BF=BDpm, Stan <sze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Stan" <sze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> "NadCixelsyd" <nadcixel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>news:5b3d79d8-51ad-40e6-8f26-6ab6817e9e1f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>> Why does every mention of Myanmar on radio/TV have to add "formerly
> >>>> Burma" to the text. =EF=BF=BDDoes anyone say, "formerly British
Hondu=
ras" or
> >>>> "formerly Ceylon" or "formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico"?
=EF=BF=BDDoe=
s the
> >>>> stewardess say, "Welcome to New York (formerly New Amsterdam)
Kennedy=

> >>>> air****t, formerly, Idlewild"?
>
> >>>> Anyone that, by now, doesn't know Myanmar's former name probably
> >>>> doesn't care.
>
> >>> If they hadn't told me Myanmar was formerly Burma, I'd have thought
it=

> >>> was a sandwich spread.
>
> >>> That sort of thing is necessary whenever some yoyo seizes control of
a=

> >>> country
> >>> and changes the name without telling anyone.
>
> >>> Don
>
> >> The name was changed in 1989. Anybody who watches Seinfeld knows
about =
the
> >> change.
>
> > Which episode was that in? I'll have to watch it again.
>
> Season 8, The Foundation
>
> Peterman went to Burma and made Elaine president of the catalog
> company.
>
> Elaine: (answers the phone) Hello, Mr. Peterman, how are you feeling?
>
> J. Peterman: Elaine, I'll be blunt. I'm burnt out. I'm fried. My mind
> is as barren as the surface of the moon. I can run that catalog no
> longer.
>
> Elaine: What? Well, who's gonna do it?
>
> J. Peterman: What about you?
>
> Elaine: Me? Why me?
>
> J. Peterman: Why, indeed.
>
> Elaine: Mr. Peterman, you can't leave.
>
> J. Peterman: I've already left, Elaine. I'm in Burma.
>
> Elaine: Burma?
>
> J. Peterman: You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be
> Burma to me. Bonne chance, Elaine. (to a passerby) You there on the
> motorbike! Sell me one of your melons! (runs after him)
>
> [The phone is not hung up.]
>
> Elaine: Mr. Peterman?


Kramer: Hey. (notices Elaine) What's wrong?

Elaine: Oh, Peterman ran off to Burma, and now he wants me to run the
catalog.

Kramer: Where?

Jerry: Myanmar.

Kramer: The discount pharmacy?