Hmm. I just revisited that thread (at
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ject:americans )
, but nothing there jumps out as being specifically related to South Africa.

I hadn't realized it had raised such a discussion!

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"Owl" wrote in message
...
Thank you for saving me a lot of time, Douglas. I actually put in a
separate
question for this just before I found your reply.

I can hardly type I am laughing so much - I don't know if you will
remember
this - but Wayne-I-M started a thread with the subject of Puzzling
Americans
on 22/12/2006. Your response was brilliant and funny, but so was the
whole
conversation, except Wayne's question which was a perfectly valid
question,
but the seriousness - except for your response and those of one or two
others
- of the conversation had me in stitches and still does. I put in a
response
(to your response) about how my fellow South Africans would view it, if
you
are interested to read it - well it is there, even if you aren't
interested
to read it. Smiles.