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

Tell John to wrap few 100NZD bills in each pen and repeat experiment.

Or will trajectory change! ;-)