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Subject: "Only in America"

1. Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in America...are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in America... drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in America...do banks leave safe doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in America...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put
our useless junk in the garage.

8. Only in America...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

10. Only in America...do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

AND ... ONLY IN AMERICA

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't
understand the Washington Post.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country,
if they could spare the time.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country,
as long as they do something scandalous.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country,
or that anyone is running it.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who think they are running another country.