>>>And the outrage that none of them think of themselves as foreign! They all imagine themselves as ah so local and domestic.
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>I think some of the funny little foreign places know that is what they are. ;-)
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>Did you know that if you drop a pen in New Zealand, you have to catch it quickly or else it falls away down past Antarctica into outer space?

Tell me about it. My inner space is full of pens here...