h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just to redress the balance.

The accents, the movies, the people. The scenery.

little things - so people are out. Sorry! Sorry! Cheap shot I know (not to mention glass houses etc ). Scenery, rollercoasters, professional wrestling, some films. Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Stingrays (the cars, not the fish)

A couple of inventions here and there...

DEFINITELY the scenery

Amusing cults (I'm deliberately ignoring the less amusing ones, there's enough doom and gloom around atm) to giggle about privately

Brad Pitt (although I swear he's actually the world's first cloned human bean... Him and Mr. Redford are getting more and more alike...)

Ben & Jerrys ice cream (they ARE american aren't they?)

The way young & old can party in the streets without any hint of violence.

The politeness of the people - (I'd been warned about NY. What a crock, couldn't have been nicer)

The civic pride of small towns.

Painted water towers.

Watching Little League baseball.

The conductor's uniforms on the trains haven't changed since the days of the Wild West.

Stars & Stripes and white picket fences at most houses.

The evocative wail of a train's horn in the night.

http://www.slate.com/id/2118542/

Joss Whedon...

Tom Lehrer.

Is there a question in here somewhere?

I'm beginning to see a pattern here...

Oh, but I like beef jerky, the NHL and those chocolates with peanut butter inside.

Music. I can count the bands I like that aren't from the US on the fingers of two-fifths of my hand.

Their politeness and ability to handle confrontation. I'll never forget seeing public screaming matches in NY that in the UK would've ended in someone being glassed, but in NY somehow ended in handshakes.

Decorated mailboxes

Screen doors

Welcome centers at State borders (with loads of "coupons")

The huge trucks lit up at night like Christmas Trees

Turning right on red

Deep South cuisine and houses with verandahs (sp?) round them.

Their huge interest in the domestic arts, they seem to make stuff fashionable again and then it takes off in Britain.

A lot of coastline: " ... about half of the USA's 90,000 total miles of coastline is in Alaska." (Maybe not so little ...)

OK, but there is some in Texas, also:

http://www.jeffcrossart.com/nautical/Gulf_coast_shrimper_kemah.jpg

My wife & I sailed past these boats for many years, then bought shrimp on the way home.

The fact that the very best of their media gets sifted from the dross and handed to us in Britain, unadulterated and usually pretty promptly.

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Yes, that should be adopted in the UK.

Except perhaps here it should be turning left on red.

The REALLY good TV

Hill Street Blues

ER

MASH

DC, Marvel and Dark Horse

Lost. Oh, and House. But then again the best bit in House is Hugh Laurie, and he's English...

>> Music. I can count the bands I like that aren't from the US on the fingers of two-fifths of my hand. <<

OK, which two?

RF