Just after Euro 96 I heard two lads of about 15
earnestly discussing how disappointing it was that Brazil hadn't played in the tournament as they were such a strong side.

My mum, bless her, doesn't have a very good track record with geography either. Some of the highlights would be thinking that Penzance is in India and that the Sea of Tranquility laps at the shores of China or "somewhere like that". She was only about 3 quarters of a million miles out.
( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 9:19, Reply)