>>No, as part of my on-going interest in finding out stuff about you strange people across the Atlantic
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>Do you mean Canadians? < snicker >

Well, you lot included, but I have found out quite a bit about canucks from personal experience.
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>>Every time I see someone in bed, in an American film or TV show, he/she/they always seem to have the pillows stacked up high, at a ridiculaously steep angle, such that they seem to be sleeping with their heads up against a cliff.
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>And you also see cowboys and soldiers with pistols that contain hundreds of bullets.

And how come a goodie, someone who's experienced at handling guns, is handed a gun by the villain and is surprised that it has no bullets when he goes to use it. I mean, the baddie's taken out the clip and the goodie doesn't notice the lack of weight (especially the 100 bullet variety).

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>I started noticing duvets in the mid 80's. Us men in the college dorms had sheets and blankets, while almost every woman had a duvet. I've been sleeping under them for about 15 years, because of my wife. Duvets, not college girls.

I didn't spend that much time in the men's dorms myself (phnar - phnar) but I did bring my own duvet with me, and just use it instead of the supplied blankets.