Best one ex hubby and I had was:
We were at a local gig here in Southern California (bearing in mind ex hubby and I are from Hull), some girl comes up to us hitting on Jules, and asks the standard "Where are you from" to which we reply England and she replies "Oh, whereabouts?". As most Californians assume London is England we assumed she had some geographical knowledge. Told her we were from Yorkshire. Next words out of her mouth..........

"Oh, I went to England, I wanted to go to Yorkshire but only got as far as Leeds"

Cue spluttering of beer............
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 1:52, Reply)