Jim wrote: > PS...Just saw an episode of The Simpsons set in Australia....gawd what a > riot :) Wish I could have sat and watched it with you, Camille :) Marge > and Lisa are walking through a museum and Mother is telling Daughter > about Australia originally being founded as a British penal colony. > "Watch your camera!" The US embassy had a special apparatus attached to > the toilet so the water would ciculate in the "right" direction when > flushed...ah...the simple pleasures :) For one of Australia's most popular shows (and the particularly dry and uncharacterisitically non-American irony that show displays suits us Aussies to the ground (: ) that one sure went down like a lead balloon over here. It was like, well, shall we try and say something, or shall we just go with the cliches? Let's just go with the cliches. It's a shame because they possibly could have said something a lot more profound if they had have tried to show the truth about it, too. Yet as I've abundantly realised it's a lot easier for the Yanks just to laugh at us than to understand us (: And BTW my Dad was very narky about the toilet water going round the wrong way. They disproved the Coreolis effect years ago. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest