Worse than that, I have heard people ask if they need a passport to go to
New Mexico. (for y'all outside of the US, New Mexico is a state not another
country).  To top it off, one of these people lived in Texas (adjacent to
New Mexico).  :-)

Norm


At 09:19 PM 7/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>scrapes. And a final one; a US sitcom the other evening had someone saying
>>that they wouldn't be coming to Australia because they couldn't speak
>>Australian.
>
>Bad thing is, that's rather true about American _PUBLIC_ education.  My
>kids are home schooled or in a local Christian school.
>
>Andy