11 thoughts on “the great divide”

1. So true – so very true! LOL

2. Yep. I had an American customer in the store once and she proudly showed me her money, which she had stamped with some “Republican dollars” slogan. I pointed out that the change I had given her included two bills stamped “Lesbian power.”

3. Also: that defacing a bill is a felony in her country, but not in ours.

4. We have slot machines that will deface our money for you, for a price.

5. Is that a dirty British metaphor?

6. I like Clifton Hill at the Falls. Plenty more to do there than the American side. Other than the Hurricane deck.

7. And I used to put pennies on trains to flatten them.
   Some people told me that it would derail the train. That made me put more on the tracks.

8. When I was in elementary school, my friends did this. For the record, it takes fifteen stacked pennies to derail a train.

9. Hell, we used to throw huge tree branches and old tires on the tracks. The trains never even slowed down, just kept on rolling down the tracks.

10. See, in America things must be different. Our trains don’t levitate.

11. Our trains don’t run anymore…

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