[SOC] Only in America ...

[Nigel Gunn]

We had that one last year.

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From: "f5pbl" <f5pbl@qsl.net>
To: "SOC ML" <SOC@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: [SOC] Only in America ...


>
> <<
> 1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.
>
> 2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of
> a skating rink.
>
> 3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way
> to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy
> people can buy cigarettes at the front.
>
> 4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large
> fries, and a diet coke.
>
> 5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain
> the pens to the counters.
>
> 6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
> the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
>
> 7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls
> and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we
> didn't want to talk to in the first place.
>
> 8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns
> in packages of eight.
>
> 9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the
> process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning
> 'bloodsucking creatures'.
>
> 10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with
> Braille lettering.
> >>
>
> 72!
> Claude, F5PBL
>
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>
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