Haiku Tuesday

[dotour]

When people ask me
"Where are you from?" I tell them
Just which hemisphere.

That's all it takes. I met a guy in the elevator yesterday and I noticed that he was speaking the same language as I. We introduced ourselves and he asked me where I was from. All I had to say was America. Which part really wouldn't have mattered. He was from

Comments

[sermonguy]

You just tell them... the Western Hemisphere? Then of course you could be from Paddington's darkest jungles of Peru. Northern Hemisphere? sure... like Ulan Bator?

You should have told that Aussie that you're a Kiwi, and punched him (in your mind, but physically, just stand there).

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[dotour]

Unless you count the oceans, America covers the entire Western Hemisphere. People just assume that it refers to the States.

[thetrainsgoby]

What about Antarctica? Last I knew that didn't fall under the moniker "America".

[sermonguy]

Actually, the Western Hemisphere also includes most of Britain (everything west of Greenwich), and all of Ireland, and a bunch of the Pacific Islands.