Oh, those primitive Iraqis...
Aged 20 I went out with a girl who was 24 and a primary school teacher, though not exactly the sharpest knife you've ever encountered in the toolshed. We were once having a discussion about teaching her class geography, and I suggested she might like to use Google Earth.
"What's that?" she replied. So we went over to my computer and I loaded up the old GE. I showed her how to use it and how to zoom in on houses etc. We found my house, her house, the school where she worked, even her car parked outside her mum's! She then asked me if we could have a look at some other countries. When I asked her to pick one, she said "my brother's fighting out in Iraq at the moment, can we have a look there?"
So we zoomed out and flicked a quater of the way round the world to Iraq. I asked "where's he based?"
"Oh, some place beginning with a B. Bangra?"
"Erm...Basra?"
"Yeah, that's it."
So I started to zoom in on a few buildings in Basra. She stopped me mid-zoom
"What are all those square things?"
"Er....they're houses."
"What?! Don't they live in mud huts?"
"...."

Remember, these people are teaching the youth of today.
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 9:48, Reply)