Herman by Jim Unger for December 07, 2012

It’s down under.

Most Americans can’t even find Canada, guess it’s a fair call.

Most Americans could get lost going to their mailboxes, without GPS !

Your globe’s upside down. Oz is really on the top.

Exactly, Superfrog.It’s a common mistake in places like the Northern Hemisphere to mount a globe upside down with the US, UK & Europe etc on top.

Signed: an Aussie

Actually it is a misconception.Australia is right next to the ……………….Oh, that’s right I heard they moved to Anahiem.

…best one I heard, when telling an American I was from Winnipeg, which is a city in Canada that’s north of North Dakota, I got a goggle-eyed stare, and the declaration that “There’s nothing north of North Dakota!” Still don’t know if it was a lack of geographical knowledge, or if we were being dissed…

That big state between North Dakota and Alaska.

I liken this strip to the People On The Street stuff that Jay Leno has done. It’s just incredible to listen to some of the stupid answers from “educated?” people give him on the simple questions he asks !

“We are the World. We are the Children”(To close to MJ death?)Canada……………..Suburb of Pittsburg.Mexico……………….Source of Slave Labor (HEY no one else will do the work so there)Australia…………………Home of Marsupials (Lost tribe)Russia…………………….Still suspicious after all these years.China……………………….Still growing at an alarming rate (Learn Chinese and how to swim)Germany, United Kingdom, France and others……………………….All soon to become the United States of Europe. (USE USE USE)(Not same sting as USA when chanted)Sweden……………………………..Home of tall people. Norway………………………………NOKIA phones (?)Finland……………………………….Still angry with RussiaI heard a Canadian dis our National Anthem once. He said it was full of violence. I thought obvious he never heard the French National Anthem. That has disemboweling in it“engorge nos fils nos companions”. Ours just has bombs exploding and rockets glare. Guess Who wrote American Woman. It is about the Statue of Liberty. They since changed their tunes to girls especially American ones all clingy but the original was anti US. What with the Vietnam War and all so forgive and forget. (Damn Canadians)But before you slam me. My grandmother was born of Canadians parents. The LaSalle family. Direct descendants to the Explorer of the same name. Her parents left Canada and moved to the US because he married a Canadian Native Indian girl. In those times it was frowned upon so he came to America. Late 1800s. So I have ties to Canada, New Orleans, and Texas all ancestral.ONE WORLD ONE PEOPLE JUST DIFFERENT OUTSIDE SAME INSIDE.Peace to all. How I wish that were so.

The cartoon isn’t very good. I bet more kids can find Australia than can find Syria. Same for grown ups even.

There he is. There’s my True Canadian. I am just jabbing at our neighbors to the north and folks in general.Oh a note from Texas.Can you please keep your cold weather north of the Red River. I saw the weather for Sunday till mid week. But what can I say. A barbed wire fence cannot hold back the Canadian Cold air onslaught.Oh well better here in Fort Worth than back up in the Panhandle. Felt at times like I was back in Alaska.Man I wish they would play some hockey. Dang lock out is just crazy. Did they not learn anything when baseball did it?

One of the best tee-shirts ever, are sold in Austria, and simply says “where are the kangaroos?”