grey wrote:
    >

    > >
    > >Who's "upset"? I think most of us regard it as a good joke! (So far we've had
    > >comments from the original Englishman, at least one American living in the U.S.,
    > >plus a couple of people living in Europe - which of us do you refer to as
    > >"insular"?)
    >
    > The one who said:
    >
    > "Email these people back and cancel their booking. If you can, get their flight
    > numbers and cancel their flights, or have them changed to Miami or somewhere
    > within the US.
    >
    > "People this ignorant shouldn't be allowed out of their home country."
    >
    > If you don't regard that as insular, then you're not looking.

I regarded it as the joke it was obviously intended to be. (Or is "irony" not in your
vocabulary?)

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:32:22 GMT, [email protected] (David Hatunen) wrote:

    >When I am in Finland I do sometimes muse about the fact that Finland has the
    >population smaller than the San Francisco Bay Area (where I was living) and an area
    >considerably larger than California.

You should go to Tokyo. The Tokyo urban area alone holds almost as many people as
California, which is larger in area than all of Japan.

Or go to England: A third the size of California, but a third more people.

Btw, Finland is smaller than California.

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"Jesper Lauridsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:32:22 GMT, [email protected] (David Hatunen)
wrote:
    >
    > >When I am in Finland I do sometimes muse about the fact that Finland has the
    > >population smaller than the San Francisco Bay Area (where I was living) and an
    > >area considerably larger than California.
    >
    > You should go to Tokyo. The Tokyo urban area alone holds almost as many people as
    > California, which is larger in area than all of Japan.

What is it... 40 million in the immediate area around Tokyo city and 80million in the
wider area?

Chris