This is gonna make you laugh: the flag is actually the one with 13 stars in a circle around the number “76” - but that is not the part which is supposed to make you laugh.
My dad bought it on his trip to the US back in 1979 and I just took a look at the label to see where he got it and it says…
“Verona, N.J.”
Shockingly, this does not surprise me. 
You know, there’s no shame in admitting you’re from New Jersey (well, maybe a little, but just a little). I’m originally from NJ myself, in fact. OTOH, if you want to continue with this whole German façade, who am I to judge? 
I once read that the most terrible drivers are supposed to come from Jersey. But that’s just hear-say. And it’s not a facade! (I know that’s what all the lunatics say) - but I admire your ASCII skills to get the cedille right on the word facade.
Well, I was only 2 when we left. I think that’s all a matter of opinion, depending on where you are – the drivers are always worse on the other side of the fence, so to speak. In any case, I haven’t had any tickets or even fender-benders since I got my Volkswagen (ironically enough) in 2000.
And it’s not a facade! (I know that’s what all the lunatics say)
And when dealing with lunatics, it’s generally safer not to question their delusions. (backs away, slowly) :rolleyes:
but I admire your ASCII skills to get the cedille right on the word facade.
I like to spell things correctly, obsessively so at times.
…And, oh yeah, you got the VW after that really bad accident you had where you went through a stop sign. Forgot to mention that little tidbit, I see. Also, your VW is less a car than an RV, considering you practically live out of it.
And when dealing with lunatics, it’s generally safer not to question their delusions. (backs away, slowly)
That’s why I’m over here and you’re over there. I have to protect myself. So, when are you coming over to visit?
I like to spell things correctly, obsessively so at times.
Yeah, we have that in common…and people who continually misspell things, especially things they SHOULD know how to spell, annoys the craaaap out of us.
I forgot nothing. It wasn’t relevant to the discussion at hand. :rolleyes:
(The stop sign was covered by low-hanging branches. People in the neighborhood said that they had complained about the hidden sign to no avail. The branches were trimmed back after my accident, which may have prevented further accidents but didn’t really help my case in gathering evidence to fight the ticket, which I didn’t even know I was getting until over a month after the fact.)
…none of which is cogent to the fact that I’m from New Jersey.
Like GalaxyRanger. 
Also, your VW is less a car than an RV, considering you practically live out of it.
Also not relevant. Besides, you’ll regret not already having your car packed when the dead rise to feast upon the living.
That’s why I’m over here and you’re over there. I have to protect myself. So, when are you coming over to visit?
I’m not so sure I want to now. 
Yeah, we have that in common…and people who continually misspell things, especially things they SHOULD know how to spell, annoys the craaaap out of us.
Particularly common words like antidisestablishmentarianistically.
ExacTly - especially in the age of spell-check.
Actually, spellcheckers are a big part of the problem.
There only good four may king shore a word is a word, knot that its the write won.
I trust I’ve made my point.
lol–in your honor, Poofy
I heart you.
yeah, I like that one a lot. I believe it was Mavourneen who originally posted it in the “thread bombs” thread.
Eye have a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
Eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.
Then, of course, there is the answer to why English is such a difficult language…
The landfill had to refuse more refuse.
He decided there was no time like the present to present the present.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
He did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
He was too close to close the door.
The doctor had to subject the subject to some tests.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
I shed a tear over the tear in my shirt.
Nicely done.
Lol reading this out loud directly as written make sme sound so posh! The Queen’s English doesn’t one know.