Originally Posted by
The Nr Fairy
In a diner in Portsmouth, NH, with an Australian mate, having flown with him from Sydney and arrived in BOS the night before...
Waitress: "Where you from?"
Us: "We've come from Australia."
W: "They've had some real nasty avalanches over there, ain't they?"
U: "Well, that's Austria"...
And I also presented a world map once to the head of the HQ support centre, so the team could work out where Austria was in relation to Australia and allocate support tickets to.
No mystery why Americans always say the name of the country after the city
Heading to Paris, France, just to be sure
In Gulf war 1 & 2 many thought those conflicts took place in the Gulf of Mexico