> Wow, no wonder foreigners think Americans are such idiots when it comes to geography.
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> This reminds me of a Dave Barry column that lists reasons why the US should attack Canada. One of them was: "it's one of the only countries most Americans can locate on a map".
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> -M"Dave Barry, you know? From that small caribbean country 'Miami'?"el

See also the Airline Agent link that Nyperold posted up there somewhere in the forum...which provides further proof of that conjecture.

And speaking of Dave Barry and geography, a link to one of Dave Barry's columns on geographical illiteracy can be found below (for those of you who haven't already seen it, of course). I found it quite enjoyable, myself...

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