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Jay Leno is interviewing people on the street about the upcoming "Royal
Wedding". He asks one college student, "What city does the Royal Family
live in?" The reply is a blank stare. So, Leno tries to drop a hint, "The
Tower of ...?" The reply? "Hey, I'm from Kentucky, man." Priceless!


ObFood: Leno offered another "man on the street" Spotted Dick.
 
On Apr 26, 11:18?pm, "Paco" wrote:

God people are so dumb. I live in Butt-Crack Nebraska but I still
know that the queen lives in London.
 
On Apr 27, 11:54?am, Chemo the Clown wrote:

Par for the course. Someone once asked me if I needed a passport to go
to New Mexico.

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
 
On Apr 26, 9:18?pm, "Paco" wrote:

I wouldn't be so hard on them. First, being suddenly interviewed by
the host of the Tonight Show can throw even normal people off balance.
Second, people are alert for trick questions. Third, the royal family
has a number of residences. While most people associate them with
Buckingham Palace, they spend a lot of time in Windsor Castle, which
is (a) a castle, and (b) in Windsor. Recall that Senator McCain
famously couldn't remember how many homes he himself owned, so how
could Americans be expected to know where the British royals spend the
bulk of their time?


Spotted Dick sounds funny even in the UK, where alternate names like
Spotted Richard or Spotted Dog are sometimes used.
 
"Jerry Avins" wrote in message
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Depends on where you're from. When I was in high school there was an
exchange student visiting from west Germany. (This was well before the
Berlin wall fell.) She was amazed we didn't need "papers" to go from town
to town, much less state to state.

Jill
 
On Apr 27, 2:34?pm, "jmcquown" wrote:

Most countries have national identity cards -- people are trying to
push that in the US. And, I think in Germany at least, visitors must
register with the police (your hotel takes care of that for you.)
 
On Apr 27, 5:34?pm, "jmcquown" wrote:

This was a character who had been born in New London. I asked if that
made him a British subject. He didn't get it. New, shmew. Mexico is by
him a foreign country.

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
get.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

Got a story. Couple of guys are going to a meeting in Columbia
Mississippi.

Meeting is about a part for an atomic bomb. They have the mating parts
in the trunk to their car. The purpose of the meeting is to check fit.

One of the guys is a Mexican citizen on a permanent visa, the other is a
US citizen residing in New Mexico.

They both work for Sandia National Laboratories.

They both have Q clearances.

They flew into New Orleans and rented a car.

About halfway between New Orleans and Columbia they stopped for gas at a
convenience store. Happened to be a cop in the store. They hadn't seen
a speed limit sign in a while, so they asked the cop what the speed
limit was.

Well, so happens that the profile the state of Mississippi used at the
time for drug smugglers was two men, renting a car in New Orleans or
Mobile, and scrupulously obeying the speed limit.

So the cop chased them down.

He asked for identification. They showed it to him. "Q-clearance,
what's that?" "Sandia National Laboratories, never heard of it." "You
Mexicans are going to have to open the trunk". Well at that point one
of them got out his cell phone and called the FBI and the FBI called the
Mississippi Highway Patrol and the Mississippi Highway Patrol called the
cop and the cop peed his pants and offered them an escort, wet pants and
all.
 
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:42:44 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
arranged random neurons and said:


Huh. That must be a new thing, as we had an apt. in Mainz for a number
of years. Flew in from the States to Frankfurt, took the train to
Mainz, ran all over the country and never once had to show ID of any
sort.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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To reply, remove "spambot" and replace it with "cox"
 
On 29/04/2011 12:51 AM, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:


My first trip to Europe was in 1993. We arrived in Paris and passed
through customs, handing a a customs declaration form and flashing our
passports. One day we got on a train in eastern France and got off at a
train station in Germany. I thought that we might get into trouble for
not going through immigration, but it seems you don't have to. On
another trip in 1999 we got lost in Germany and Austria while headed
back to our hotel in Garmische-Partenkirchen. We drove back and forth
across the border a half dozen times.

For the last 45 years I have lived within 15 miles of the US border and
used to cross with nothing more than the hassle of customs. Now I have
to get a passport. And people are whining about outdated European controls.
 
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