Re: America and Canada (was Re: Installing Panther on B/W G3)

[Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:01:23 -0500, Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:51:41 -0500, Sheldon Simms
> <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>That's the point. You say that, but Germans commonly count North and
>>South America as one continent and say that there are five continents:
>>
>> Europe
>> Asia
>> Afrika
>> America
>> Antarctica/Australia (take your pick)
> 
> Well, I lived in Germany for four years back in the 80's and back
> then, we made sure everyone knew we were Canadian and not "American"
> as there were quite a few people there that didn't much care for
> people from the US but liked Canadians just fine.

Quatsch... I never met a single person who didn't like "Americans".
I met people who didn't like US politics, but Americans as individuals,
no problem. (unless they turned out individually to be jerks, but
that goes for every nationality).

One time a Canadian in Germany pissed me off. He was a waiter in a
restaurant. I (speaking German) ordered mineral water. He started
speaking english, insisting that I could have tap water. I kept speaking
German, and explained that I wanted mineral water in a bottle, no gas.
He wouldn't believe it, and kept saying that he didn't mind if I
really wanted tap water, it was no problem. Finally after me rejecting
his tap water three times, he finally decided that I really did want
to order bottled water after all, and brought it.

>>And once we get that US/Canada postal union, we can all sit around
>>the campfire, swap stamps and celebrate our Northamericanness.
> 
> I've never heard anything about this.  Are the Canadian and US postal
> services trying to merge or something?

Just my wishful thinking...