Yes,
Well, geography stories with American are too easy... ;) 3 weeks ago, as I
was in transit in New York airport, I had to wait during about 25 minutes
just for the lady to find the ISO country code for Switzerland. So I told
her: "If you want the ISO code, it is 'CH'. I know it sounds weird, but
that's it". She said "ok, ok..." and continued to search for any other clue.
Then she saw "Neuch�tel (NE)" on my passport (NE is the short name for
Neuch�tel, the city where I live) so she asked me an existential question:
"Is Switzerland in the Netherlands?" (because of the NE)
And I said: "Nope, Switzerland is in Switzerland and the ISO code is CH".
Ten minutes later she said: "Oh yes, I see, the code is 'CH'.". I was
oscillating between red and yellow.
But then I met very smart people in California, so I quickly forgot this
funny story.
> http://mitglied.lycos.de/Pedde1/american_geography.jpg
The whole truth about this is that about 1 week later, a famous French TV
show took this story and said "look at CNN, they did it wrong, everybody
knows that this is ... Austria". And everybody was applauding and laughing.
The ton of the joke was: "CNN is so stupid, we, in France, now geography!"
And the week later, at the same TV show, the guy came and said: "Well,
sorry, the country was not Austria either..."
Thought of the day:
"We all guess our country is full of Einstein until we met our neighbor and
his dog."
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