Roy, I don't believe the two you mention are typical, however to some, everyone with a southern accent is from the state of Mississippi! Go figure! Bill@Dr-Fox.Com WebSite {http://www.dr-fox.com} ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy Stockdill <roystock@compuserve.com> To: <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: [NEWGEN] Just a reminder! THINK YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT? THINK AGAIN! : Sally Pavia wrote..... : : >>In 1778, ONE vote gave America the English language instead of German.<< : : Unfortunately, Sally, there would appear to be some Americans today who : think that all Europeans, including the English, ARE German!!! I kid ye : not, the following stories are absolutely true..... : : A good friend of mine a few years ago was posted to Los Angeles as US West : Coast correspondent for a very large British national newspaper : (circulation of well over 4 million). He was born in England, brought up : here all his life and obviously speaks with an English accent. In his : passport it says he is British. Unfortunately (and this is a side issue but : it is a cause of some annoyance to most Brits) we now have to have a silly : little passport issued under the name of the European Economic Community. : When my friend went to open a bank account at a major bank in LA he was : aghast to notice that the girl writing down his details entered his : nationality as "German"!!! When he protested he was British, she replied: : "Well, you have an EEC passport and everybody knows that that means : Germany." It was only after repeated protests and demands to see a higher : authority that the bank eventually, reluctantly, accorded him his true : nationality. : : Second story..... : : Another friend of mine went into a restaurant in St Paul, Minnesota, with a : business colleague. They overheard the manager tell the waitress to be : especially attentive to them as they were visitors from England. The : waitress (a blonde, as it happens, but I don't wish to irritate all you : blondes out there by suggesting it meant anything particularly!) replied: : "From England, huh? Will they need me to translate the menu for them?" : : Please assure me these two ladies are not typical of the average American : bank official/waitress!!!!! : : Roy Stockdill : Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies : The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) : STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP : GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & : West Ridings : MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire : Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock : "Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. : If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and : humorist 1771-1845) : : : ==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== : THE GENEALOGIST NEVER TAKES WITHOUT SHARING.