Only in America?

[Vigil]

We hear this expression from time to time.

My personal experience of this was when I was a seventeen year old on a trip to California. I was entitled to buy a semi-automatic rifle, but not cigarettes? Presumably cigarettes are dangerous for your health.

Anyway, my Pixie Pals, do you have a favourite "Only in America"?

[mcjim623]

My favorite "only in america" is the result of people I know through work. I was having a dinner/bar-b-que with family and friends from work. My wife is mexican, and I worked with an assistant manager who was from Korea. She happened to be a lesbian. So at dinner, we had a Korean-Mexican lesbian couple with twin daughters having dinner with a mixed-race couple and their immigrant parents, step-children, mixed race children, speaking spanglish, eating chinese food, italian food(pizza) and sushi.

I could only think, "Only in America!"

Jim

Course, I tried to keep it international with some "French" kisses and a promise of doing it greek style

[Oldfart]

Seeking an Internet cafe and being directed to Starbucks qualifies.

[LixyChick]

LMAO@mcjim623!

I always think...."Only in America"......when I am in a big city, (Philadelphia for example......the heart of the country and the home of the constitution or New York City....."Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses").......and I see a disheveled, obviously homeless man/woman......lying on the sidewalk in front of a posh restaraunt....while passer's by literally have to step over his/her feet to enter said establishment......and the look of disgust that comes over the face of the patron for being put off by this poor, tired sot. I dunno if this is a good example of "Only in America"......but it's what I think when I see this happen!

[PantyFanatic]

I think this too often says it all.:)


Two families move from Pakistan to America. When they arrive, the fathers make each other a bet -- in a year's time, whichever family has become more American will win.

A year later when they meet again, the first guy says, "My son is playing baseball, I had McDonald's for breakfast and I'm on my way to pick up a case of Bud for tonight. How about you?"

The second guy says, "F*ck you, towel-head!"


;)

[BIBI]

RED ROSE TEA.............only in CANADA eh! LOL

[jseal]

Well, This isn't exactly on topic, but I once watched a Saud order in English a hamburger from a Phillipino at a Meridian.

Only in Jeddah!

[LixyChick]

Originally posted by BIBI
RED ROSE TEA.............only in CANADA eh! LOL
Wait BIBI.......now are you saying that only Canada has Red Rose Tea?..........*Lixy says as she looks down at her Red Rose tea bag in her pretty wittle tea cup*

Sorry.....but I'm confused! LOL!

OK......OK.........stop laughing and please lemme know!

[Lilith]

Lixy we have it too but it's a subsidiary of the Canada company. The sell to US too but it is widely suspected that the US tea is inferior.

[WildIrish]

On our honeymoon, my wife and I sat in an Italian restaurant...in Paris...and ordered in French...from a Chinese waiter! It's a miracle we got what we wanted.

It made me reconsider America's status of being the world's melting pot.

[MilkToast]

Only in America can you go to a fast food joint and watch someone order two burgers, a super large fry, two apple pies, and a DIET Coke!

[BIBI]

It's just a line from an old commercial...... :)