*giggles*

[seldear]

Found in Column 8 on Friday:

Geoff Sanders overheard this marvellous exchange between an American woman and a crew member on a Qantas flight from LA to Sydney.

Woman: What time is it?
Attendant: In Sydney or LA?
Woman: In Sydney.
Attendant: 0300.
Woman: When do we land?
Attendant: 0900 Wednesday.
Woman: But we left LA on Monday night. What happened to Tuesday?
Attendant: We don't have a Tuesday. We miss it altogether because we cross the International Date Line.
Woman: What? You don't have Tuesdays in Australia?

Only to be followed up today with:

There's no end to the subject of American visitors' fundamental incomprehension of time zones and date lines (Column 8, Friday). The examples get sillier and sillier. Izzy Perko, of Sydney, was reminded "of the time when I was running a photographic store on the northern beaches. I decided to give a very nice American customer one of our Australian landscape calendars. 'Oh it's so beautiful, but I can't possibly take it,' she said." Intrigued, Izzy asked her why. "'The dates are all mixed up,' she said. 'When it's Monday the fifth here, it's Tuesday the fifth back home in the states, it would only confuse me!' Nothing I said would convince her to take the calendar."

Comments

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

You describe it so succinctly! *G*

[angelsasha.livejournal.com]

LOL! I like it :D

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

I'm moving to Canada...

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. At least the defining personality for your country isn't Steve Irwin (a.k.a. "The Crocodile Hunter")

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

LMAO! If it makes you feel any better, I think people my age and older think of Crocodile *Dundee* first. ;o)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not much better! *g*

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

LOL, didn't think so.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Why can’t people ever think of Nicole Kidman or Cate Blanchett or Russell Crowe or Geoffrey Rush when it comes to Australian entertainment personalities?

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Russell Crowe. *drool*

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Okay, point. They're not usually *thinking* of Russell... :)

Finally got a rec for you.

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

This is really cool. Here is a fic that I read a few weeks ago, written by one of the mods over at SGAHC, and I wanted to rec it to you, but it wasn't anywhere but the list until today!

http://www.livejournal.com/community/sg_lonelyship/3591.html?#cutid1

That's part one. Part two is the next post on the same list. It's dark with action. Enjoy :)

Re: Finally got a rec for you.

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

PS. *looks up at the post* I think I hit "comment" on the wrong post. I'm thinking it was for the post above or below this one, but it's a rec anyway.