JackOfAll wrote: > No, I didn't. That might explain it! I've got this idea in my head that > their globes and maps have one land mass marked "USA" and anything else > marked, "non-USA". ;) > > Which reminds me of standing at a bar in a Las Vegas casino..... Start > talking to a Texan couple, him in a 500 gallon hat. "Love, your accent", > she said. Conversation goes on to them telling me about their trip to > Europe. How they visited Buckingham Palace, "where the queen lives". OK, > so far, all good. Then the confusion starts. Turns out that was a one > day trip, out of two weeks they spent in Paris. Can't quite comprehend > that the UK is a separate country, not a part of France. I think she > would have grasped it better if she had flown into the UK and landed at > Heathrow, or taken a boat over water from Calais to Dover, but it seemed > that because they had taken a train from Paris to London, without > stopping, that it all must be the same country! Couldn't quite grasp > that you could cross borders into another country by train.....
No, the globes show the other countries, but each country is a different color. So when people go there they are shocked when they find out the ground in Spain isn't green and the ground in France isn't blue. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
