>>>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?

Really ? Is there already a service industry afloat of people Bound At Low Leg On Ordinary Nature (short: BALLOON) trying to fish those before they escape into outer space?