Monday, April 30, 2007

Compare and Contrast

So if you ever went back to the States, what would you miss about Germany?

Bread. Paper ballots. And four-state traffic lights.

And what do you miss about the US?

The quarter-dollar coin, a product of pure American ingenuity right up there with the synthetic bowling ball and right-hand turns on red lights. The Pacific coast. And the California vowel shift.

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