I loved the way my poop spun in South America. I live in Canada most of the time. ---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com