Our American Friends...
When I was working in the middle east one of my co-workers was a very intelligent, articulate american. He really was one of the cleverest people I knew and had just graduated from a good law school.
He was telling me one day how he grew up on a farm and how much fun he used to have on the his dad's tractor. He suddenly stopped and looked at me apologetically and said the immortal words "Oh I'm sorry. Do you know what I mean? I don't think you have mechanised agriculture in Europe do you?"

Well, it almost made me drop the piece of straw in my mouth and soil my smock. Still he did introduce me to the internet...

Oh yes. He also believed that one of the main parks in Tokyo called "Yoyogi" was named after Yogi bear!
(Gusofnavarone always makes a map of france from sarnies, Tue 11 Jan 2005, 13:07, Reply)