SLSL Under the Rose - Goodfellow

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on 2/20/03 2:03 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> 
>> Goes to show you what Europeans knew about the New World...  Actually, my
>> French Grandmother-in-law is still pretty sure, even though we send photos,
>> that San Antonio, Texas is a desert city... weather forecast today - rain
>> again.
> 
> Mainly because that's how the US press describes Texas, without fail
> or exception.
> 
> It'd be almost an exaggeration to say that newspapers in LA or NYC
> say nothing positive about Texas :)
> 
> People from all over the world are amazed when I describe living in a
> semi-tropical or forested part of Texas, and they can't believe the
> Hill Country exists.
> 
> Or Weimar.

Or that the thermometer sometimes drops below zero F in parts of Texas and
Arizona.