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Gatsby
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 Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: Things America is No. 1 in... |
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Is there anything the United States is the best in the world in?
Anyone?
Anything? |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Undergraduate and post-graduate education
Policies for small businesses and bankruptcy forgivenes for their failure
Oldest working Constitutive document |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| And this topic comes up again. I remember it not so long ago. I wrote about America being #1 in conservation of large tracks of wilderness. That we had conservation departments overlooking many of the last stretches of untamed nature on the Earth. Lets hope China doesn't ever get it. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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sojourner1 wrote:
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| And this topic comes up again. I remember it not so long ago. I wrote about America being #1 in conservation of large tracks of wilderness. That we had conservation departments overlooking many of the last stretches of untamed nature on the Earth. Lets hope China doesn't ever get it. |
Here is the reason for this thread:
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| Yes, we still are #1. Sorry to burst your bubble. |
http://f1rums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1799543&highlight=#1799543
I was trying to think of how someone could believe this. It sounds like something a high school kid would yell after a basketball game. If your school's team wins, then you, by proxy, are also No. 1 in your little universe. If America is No. 1, then all Americans are the best in our little universe called Planet Earth.
But it seems to me we aren't No. 1, except in our own minds.
So I thought about it. And thought. And I have decided that America does still grow some very good apples. I don't know if they are the best in the world, as I have not gone around the world tasting apples. But I think the selection and quality are better than our neighbor to the south, Mexico. And they certainly are better than Korea's.
So that's my contribution.
How do you like them apples? Would anyone here disagree that America grows the finest apples in the world? |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Cheesecake
Porn
Midget porn
Investment banking failures
American football
Ethnic minority presidential candidates
Music (I said it!)
Rattlesnakes
White trash (I stand accused.)
Haters
Pubic hair, cockblocking, p_enis envy (Oh, wait...that's Korea...)
Crack cocaine
Uninspired monuments
Going to the mfing Moon
Gun shows
Wicked-ass car stereos
Throwback jerseys
Slushees
Peanut brittle
Mentally-disabled politicians
Hairy asses
Nailing Korean girls
School shootings
Inventing stuff everybody else is lucky to have and take for f-ing granted
Canyons
Chicken wings
Tobacco 'quality'
Malt liquor
Illegal residents
Malls
Basketball
Hash browns
Semen
'World' Series victories
Ham
Debt
Double-wides
Single-wides
Golf courses
Fancy martinis
People who wished they lived there
Tour de France's
Bikini waxes
B/Millionaires
Rap
Military interventions that saved your country's ass
Military interventions that make no sense at all
Recycling
King Crab
Frivolous lawsuits
Reality TV/Most Outrageous _______
Divorce
Pet ownership
Open lesbians
Evangelical Christians
Hot Vice Presidential candidates
International naivety
Female astronauts
Chili
Magic
Nuclear weapons
Butchering the English language
Fancy napkins
for starters, anyway... |
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5600
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
Location: At an undisclosed FEMA camp.
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The Ramones
Misfits
*beep*
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Homer Simpson
Gunts/FUPA's
Mullets
Waffle House
Wal-Mart
Ron Jeremy
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| We're the only country this topic would reference! |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Oldest working Constitutive document |
I'm just curious if that's true and not the Magna Carta??? I might be wrong as it might not be a Constitutive document. |
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itaewonguy
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| world manipulation! |
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i4NI
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Canadian jokes |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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nominal GDP
Granted if the EU was a country that'd be #1, but it's not. |
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canuckistan
Mod Team
Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Fast food |
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semi-fly
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Overweight population |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
Oldest working Constitutive document |
I'm just curious if that's true and not the Magna Carta??? I might be wrong as it might not be a Constitutive document. |
It's true.
Magna Carta is one of the founding documents in the struggle to establish limited government, but it is not itself a constitution. |
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