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Re: OT: national humor

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Friday, May 9, 2003, 13:02
John Cowan wrote:

>But then there's the Israeli astronautical program, which sets the >ambitious objective of landing a man on the sun. The heat, the radiation? >No problem. They will of course go at night. >
I thought Americans made fun of Poles in the way we make fun of the Irish? (How do you confuse an Irishman? Put him in a round room and ask him to sit in the corner/On a motorbike and ask him to wind down the window etc.) (Obviously inherited from England. We also make fun of Kiwis, but in a different way: they say fush and chups; how could you *not*? :P )
>(My own home state of New Jersey >is better known for its mosquitoes -- why, a good many of them weigh a >pound [2.2 kg], and they sit on tree leaves and bark when people go by.) > >
Don't you mean 454 g? -- Tristan <kesuari@...>

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