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From: russ@bbx.UUCP (Russ Kepler)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Finally Learns USA Country Code
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Date: 4 Jun 90 15:59:14 GMT
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In article <8539@accuvax.nwu.edu> mmm@cup.portal.com writes:

>Next time, try asking for the country code of New Mexico  :-)

OK - that does it.  We're taking all of those funny bombs, planes,
missiles, etc. that you USAians keep leaving laying around here and
secceeding... we'll create our own country, apply for out own country
code (OB telecom content) and go our own way.  We'll be better armed
than the country of Nebraska...

>[Moderator's Note: Listen, that's not funny! Ask people living in New
>Mexico sometime how often they have to fight the ignorance of credit
>card clerks and mail order companies who try to tell them they do not
>'do business outside the United States' ...  I had an Illinois Bell
>operator one time try to find the 'international routing' to connect
>me on a call there. What's worse these days, the American's pitiful
>command of English or our abysmal lack of knowledge in geography?  PT]

Actually it's kinda fun.  The New_Mexico_Magazine has a column called
One_of_Our_Fifty_is_Missing that is devoted to printing the, uhhh,
interesting things that refer to NM being a foreign country.  Little
things, mostly, like the geography teachers asking for posters,
phamplets and samples of our currency ... I did once have someone ask
me about the exchange rate on a flight here, ohh - the temptation.

But it's different in Europe.  All I have to do is show my passport
and they figure it out.


Russ Kepler -  Basis Int'l     SNAIL:  5901 Jefferson NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
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