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God bless you, Mark & Mack, and all the useless tat you disseminate
Posted: 14:19 Aug 10 2002
Only in America...
ONLY IN AMERICA
Only in America . . . can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in America . . . are there handicap parking spaces in front of a skating rink.
Only in America . . . do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
Only in America . . . do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Only in America . . . do people leave cars worth thousands of $$$ in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage
Only in America . . . do people buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
Only in America . . . do drug stores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in America . . . do people use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so they will not miss a call from someone they did not want to talk to in the first place.
Only in America . . . do they use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
Only in America . . . do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Only in America. . . does a Viet-Nam veteran sleep in the streets in a cardboard box, while a draft-dodger lives in the White House.
(Edited by Barbara 10/08/2002 15:11)
Only in America . . . can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in America . . . are there handicap parking spaces in front of a skating rink.
Only in America . . . do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
Only in America . . . do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Only in America . . . do people leave cars worth thousands of $$$ in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage
Only in America . . . do people buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
Only in America . . . do drug stores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in America . . . do people use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so they will not miss a call from someone they did not want to talk to in the first place.
Only in America . . . do they use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
Only in America . . . do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Only in America. . . does a Viet-Nam veteran sleep in the streets in a cardboard box, while a draft-dodger lives in the White House.
(Edited by Barbara 10/08/2002 15:11)
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Hehe that was funny!, scarily I have seen this one in England!
by Barbara
Only in America . . . do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
Posted: 17:58 Aug 10 2002 
Yeah, me! ...but that's only because I prefer the taste of diet to ordinary
by coolkat
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Hehe that was funny!, scarily I have seen this one in England!
Posted: 18:54 Aug 10 2002
Gone off Diet Coke...I am one of those sad people that will only drink Coke or Pepsi...none of this 'own brand' rubbish!!
Thanks for posting there - made me smile !
Thanks for posting there - made me smile !
Posted: 21:56 Aug 10 2002 
Suspect England is the same - after all there's such a thing as spectating
by Barbara
Only in America . . . are there handicap parking spaces in front of a skating rink.
Only in America . . . do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
ditto
by Stoo
Yeah, me! ...but that's only because I prefer the taste of diet to ordinary
my local Sainsbury's is just the same
Only in America . . . do drug stores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people buy cigarettes at the front.
Posted: 23:00 Aug 11 2002 
Actually, with the possible exception of the drive-in ATM, all of these would seem to apply to any western European nation...
Posted: 05:09 Aug 15 2002
To be honest, the one about the draught dodger in the White House is probably exclusive to the USA, too
Posted: 15:55 Aug 15 2002
Didn't the fourth one used to be:
'Only in America… do banks leave both doors *to the vault* open and then chain the pens to the counters'?
'Only in America… do banks leave both doors *to the vault* open and then chain the pens to the counters'?
Posted: 15:57 Aug 15 2002