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Originally posted by Oz Referee
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Firstly, I am NOT (As an aside, a recent study comparing education of "average" 15 year old Americans versus Australians found that the Australian students could name more of the 50 states of America, than the Americans could!).
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Trust me, that scares me too. What was worse in the last election one of the new stations took pictures of all the prez and vice prez candidates on the street to ask people identify them. Now I am sure there was a bit of editing, but they had like 50 peple who had no idea who they were. And these people vote?
If you want dumb american stories you should work in a call center. In college I worked in a credit card call center and here are a few of my favs, we could call them Bizarro Davisms:
How do I know if I have a gold card?
What colour is a gold Card
Louisville. Pronounced "Louie-ville", but often pronounced "Louis-vile"
And the king of them all...What is this Interest Charge?
Fri Jul 13, 2001, 07:38am
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