Tuesday, February 3, 2009

One of those neutral countries starts with "S"...


http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2009/01/28/jessica-alba-tells-tmz-bill-oreilly-im-no-buffoon/
Oh come on. For months after I moved here, people still asked me "How is Sweden?"
Cut the girl some slack! :)

4 comments:

Global Librarian said...

I frequently heard: "Switzerland? Isn't that where they make all the furniture?"

Perhaps the European countries should have planned better and not repeated the letter "S" when naming countries?

The Big Finn said...

Six months??? People still ask me "How's Sweden?" after EIGHT YEARS!!

My Brand New Swiss Life said...

And if I had a dollar for everytime I heard, "oh, there are a lot of blonds there, right?"...

FandK said...

Yep-- I lived there for 18months and everyone I talked to asked how "the blonds in Sweden" were. I guess we shouldn't be too shocked though considering that 85% of Americans can't find Manhattan on a map and 50% can't correctly identify their home state. Soooo, how can we expect them to know the differnence between Switzerland and Sweden?