My friend Em posted this on Facebook – I don’t know the original reference:
Douglas Adams describes Australia – my favourite bit…
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/note.php?note_id=64740216576&ref=nf
*grins*
It should probably be noted that this isn’t bopAd at all, but a writer named Jeremy Lee, aka Orinoco, in a very funny essay he wrote called .