We hear this expression from time to time.

My personal experience of this was when I was a seventeen year old on a trip to California. I was entitled to buy a semi-automatic rifle, but not cigarettes? Presumably cigarettes are dangerous for your health.

Anyway, my Pixie Pals, do you have a favourite "Only in America"?

My favorite "only in america" is the result of people I know through work. I was having a dinner/bar-b-que with family and friends from work. My wife is mexican, and I worked with an assistant manager who was from Korea. She happened to be a lesbian. So at dinner, we had a Korean-Mexican lesbian couple with twin daughters having dinner with a mixed-race couple and their immigrant parents, step-children, mixed race children, speaking spanglish, eating chinese food, italian food(pizza) and sushi.

I could only think, "Only in America!"

Jim

Course, I tried to keep it international with some "French" kisses and a promise of doing it greek style

Seeking an Internet cafe and being directed to Starbucks qualifies.

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LMAO@mcjim623!

I always think...."Only in America"......when I am in a big city, (Philadelphia for example......the heart of the country and the home of the constitution or New York City....."Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses").......and I see a disheveled, obviously homeless man/woman......lying on the sidewalk in front of a posh restaraunt....while passer's by literally have to step over his/her feet to enter said establishment......and the look of disgust that comes over the face of the patron for being put off by this poor, tired sot. I dunno if this is a good example of "Only in America"......but it's what I think when I see this happen!

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I think this too often says it all.


Two families move from Pakistan to America. When they arrive, the fathers make each other a bet -- in a year's time, whichever family has become more American will win.

A year later when they meet again, the first guy says, "My son is playing baseball, I had McDonald's for breakfast and I'm on my way to pick up a case of Bud for tonight. How about you?"

The second guy says, "F*ck you, towel-head!"

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RED ROSE TEA.............only in CANADA eh! LOL

Well, This isn't exactly on topic, but I once watched a Saud order in English a hamburger from a Phillipino at a Meridian.

Only in Jeddah!

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Wait BIBI.......now are you saying that only Canada has Red Rose Tea?..........*Lixy says as she looks down at her Red Rose tea bag in her pretty wittle tea cup*

Sorry.....but I'm confused! LOL!

OK......OK.........stop laughing and please lemme know!

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~Thomas Dewar~

Lixy we have it too but it's a subsidiary of the Canada company. The sell to US too but it is widely suspected that the US tea is inferior.

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On our honeymoon, my wife and I sat in an Italian restaurant...in Paris...and ordered in French...from a Chinese waiter! It's a miracle we got what we wanted.

It made me reconsider America's status of being the world's melting pot.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Only in America can you go to a fast food joint and watch someone order two burgers, a super large fry, two apple pies, and a DIET Coke!

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It's just a line from an old commercial......