Reply #1: Since only about 50% of Americans can recognize... [View All]

[Kutjara]

...themselves in the mirror, this poll isn't much of a surprise. The one thing we will always lead the world in is dumb.

I remember when I was in Miami on business and the waitress in a restaurant noticed my slight Irish accent. She asked where I was from and, when I told her I'd lived in Ireland for a long time, said, "Oh, yeah. Ireland. That's some place near Europe, isn't it? I think you've got all kinds of problems with the PLO over there, haven't you?" She said she knew this because she'd studied it recently at college. When I enquired as to her major, she said, 'international relations.' Well, that explains it.