Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

> "Stan" <szelek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:mn.5cbe7d852aae0222.90822@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> "Stan" <szelek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>> news:mn.5b587d8519b3a642.90822@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> "NadCixelsyd" <nadcixelsyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>>>>
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>>>>>> Why does every mention of Myanmar on radio/TV have to add "formerly
>>>>>> Burma" to the text.  Does anyone say, "formerly British Honduras"
or
>>>>>> "formerly Ceylon" or "formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico"?  Does 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?
>>
>> http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheFoundation.html
>
>
> I'm impressed by your memory and the clever subtlety of the joke
> concerning the name change.
>
> Don

Don't be too impressed with my memory (no one else is). It was learned 
by rote. My wife is a big Seinfeld fan (I say addict) and at one point 
was watching it up to 3 times a day.


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