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02-15-2012, 02:44 PM
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Co-Strawberry Festival Queen
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ye Olde Englande
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Reasons to Come to America
This is a current precis.
There may be more. Oh - and I've been to the US twice already. But that was BC, if you get what I mean. Dwellars of course, above and beyond anything else (this list is mostly superficial) Theme Parks Real BBQ Taco Bell (what?! we don't have that here) Larger clothing sizes The spread of opinions I get on the Cellar Great service Local food I've never heard of Extraordinary scenery Being foreign (don't knock it - you'd get it over here too!) Tasting things I've only read about |
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02-15-2012, 02:48 PM
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Great service?
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02-15-2012, 03:13 PM
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lobber of scimitars
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Location: Phila Burbs
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Nice toilet paper. Cushiony soft. Absorbent.
Great coffee. The tradeoff, though is execrable tea. In styrofoam cups. Our history is shorter than yours, but no less rich. Should you come to Philadelphia, in addition to meeting a LOT of Dwellars, you can see exactly where the colonies flipped the bird at King George. And where Rocky ran up the steps.
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02-15-2012, 03:49 PM
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02-15-2012, 05:35 PM
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Hill-Biffy or HillWilliam
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What are plane tickets going for these days? I bet you'd have a blast.
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02-15-2012, 07:42 PM
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Our wonderful national parks where you can go back in time much further than 1600 or 1700. Mesa Verde for example. It has 600 cliff dwellings that were created by Pueblo Indians between AD600 to AD1300. Come on out West and I'll show you some incredible stuff. I won't even make you camp unless you want to.
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02-18-2012, 07:22 PM
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02-15-2012, 08:44 PM
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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
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I'll take you skinny-dipping in the old sewage lagoon!! Not many women can resist that
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02-16-2012, 02:33 AM
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Really good all you can eat buffets Films showing months before they are released at home Cheap petrol (so people will drive miles to meet me) Powerful showers |
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02-16-2012, 09:28 PM
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...But there are many good reasons. These are just not they.
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02-16-2012, 09:36 PM
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I have to question the coffee thing. Dazza has been to the US a couple of times, and he reckons he has yet to find a place that serves good coffee. I wouldn't know having never been there myself.
All I have is here-say from pretty much everyone.
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Cream used to come in pitchers. These days it comes in little plastic trapezoids. If you get any of it into your coffee instead of onto your shirt, what it tastes like is water, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, sodium caseinate, sugar, di-potassium phosphate, propylene glycol monostearate, polysorbate 60, stearolyle-lactilate, salt, artificial flavor and color. That's what it tastes like because that's what it is. The advantage over cream is that it costs less and doesn't spoil as fast. Note that this is an advantage to the coffee shop, not to the coffee drinker. A further advantage is that waitresses, whose lives used to be boring, are now steadily amused as one customer after another squirts himself in the chest and utters hilarious and innovative oaths.
- Charles Kuralt, _Dateline America_
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