[PRCo] Re: STUPIDITY

[Fred W. Schneider III]

ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> 
> I ran across an article in the local paper that was about a talk show
> host from Canada that asked proposterous questions of Americans about
> Canada .  One question asked was "did the yanks think that Canada should
> support a Navy, even if it is landlocked ?"  The answer from a Floridian
> was " If you dont have any seaports we have plenty that you could use "
> Another question was asked about the 72 min. hour or the 20 hr days used
> in Canada and was never challenged on its validity.

No one has a patent on stupidity but we try awfully hard.  Some of you
will remember the National Geographic quiz ... the one in which
Americans came in dead last behind the British.  Ed Lybarger, John
Swindler and I were eating dinner in a restaurant in Hampton Township,
Cumberland County, PA, about eight miles west of Harrisburg.  For those
of you who don't know all the state capitals, Harrisburg is it.  Well,
we had just be discussing the test so I elected to have a little fun
with the waitress ... told here we were from Ohio going to Philly on
business tomorrow, that we'd stopped over night, and we thought that the
state capitol was located in Harrisburg ... were we correct?  Her answer
was priceless.  "I don't know.  I'm not in school anymore so I don't
have to know!"  

And a few days later I asked a niece what country abuts the U. S. to the
south.  I think she was a senior in high school at the time.  She
replied, "Is it Mexico?"  After I told her that Izits don't count, she
replied, "Well then, I don't know."  She married a doctor!!!!  Her
incredibly bright younger sister is having trouble getting a job as a
teacher.