Yes they have the outdoor cook-up, we have the backyard B-B-Q, beer and the usual flies. And ours seem more determined and obnoxious than theirs; particularly the little peppery ones, ditto our bigger crocs (salties) and shrimps!

We both seem to love most sports, although the Yanks seem to be more competitive; and enjoy superior sports "medicine"?

That's where the similarities seem to end; they have their rights spelled out in a bill of rights, we don't!

They have a farm bill, and subsidized food production, we don't.

They have opened up the most promising oil provinces off of their coastline; we, but only in the most promising provinces, have forbidden it!

Yes I can see where you're coming from, there are similarities!

Or put another way, God bless America, and you Aussies can go visit the nearest taxidermist!
Rhrosty.

In the end Oz is God's Zone Land even for an atheist like me.

And my first girlfriend was a Yank - me at the confused age of 13 - she at the horny age of 12.

Ah my youth of missed roots.

Pete