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Offline cb750k7

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Only in America......
« on: December 28, 2007, 01:03:26 PM »
1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America......do they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America......do they use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won?t miss a call from someone they didn?t want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in America......do they buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in America......do they use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".

10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.



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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2007, 02:02:58 PM »
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

Don't forget that Diet Coke will be a 32oz.  ...Unless you want the big size.
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2007, 02:39:54 PM »
How big is the big size???  ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2007, 05:16:44 PM »
i've never had to wait for an ambulance but DAMN if i have to wait as long as i've waited for EVERY pizza in my life!
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2007, 09:01:07 PM »
6. Only in America......do they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

So, you're saying my SOHC 4 motorcycles are useless junk, huh?  ??? >:( :o
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2007, 09:31:23 PM »
6. Only in America......do they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

So, you're saying my SOHC 4 motorcycles are useless junk, huh?  ??? >:( :o

Dem's fightin' words!   :D

Oh, and the EMT in the ambulance probably gets paid no more than the guy delivering the pizza... >:(
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2007, 11:44:17 AM »
I've never had to tip a paramedic.....you think it would matter if tipping the medics were the norm?

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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2007, 01:19:53 PM »
I believe the big size is a 42 oz.
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2007, 02:11:02 PM »
42 Ounces of coke in one sitting? Geezus, they should have a paramedic stationed at every franchise! :o
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2007, 07:16:21 AM »
You need that to wash down the 72 oz burger from Texas.
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2008, 07:39:42 AM »
42 Ounces of coke in one sitting? Geezus, they should have a paramedic stationed at every franchise! :o

the supersize used to be 64oz.....7-11 still sells soda and slurpees in that size.
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Re: Only in America......
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2008, 04:30:38 PM »
64 Oz? It's no wonder you don't have free medical cover in the US! (Although, it's around 100 deg F outside at 1130 am, as I type this, and 3 pints of anything cold would be nice................) ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)