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[bill cobbett]

Well no good looking to US Pres Bayrak Obama for the answer...

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Im-no- ... a-20110804

[CBBB]

At least he says "I promise you I'll find out an answer and we'll make sure to call you back".

[Kikapu]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a punishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

[SKI-preo]

I get asked this question 5 times a day by red neck bogans.

[Viewpoint]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a punishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

How old are you? thought you were 59 why are you still at the girlfriend stage??? very sad.

[EricSeans]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a punishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

How old are you? thought you were 59 why are you still at the girlfriend stage??? very sad.

How can you make a personal comment without being in possession of the facts. For all you know, Kiks is beating them off with a s***ty stick and loving it.

[Cap]

Where is Cyprus?

Pastin kele mou

[Pyrpolizer]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a punishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

How old are you? thought you were 59 why are you still at the girlfriend stage??? very sad.

Said the offspring of some Cypriots peasants, conservatist to the bone, who never themselves adjusted in the UK, and packed their daughter to a groom back to their original agrarian environment

[Hermes]

How old are you? thought you were 59 why are you still at the girlfriend stage??? very sad.

Says the man who dresses up like a girl and dates Turkish soldiers. Very sad.

[Kikapu]

True story.

Couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I flew to Seattle from San Francisco, rented a car and drove to Vancouver B.C., Canada. On our return back to the US few days later, we were met at the border by a young female border agent. Upon showing my US passport and my girlfriend's Swiss passport, the agent asked the usual boring question as to where and when we met. I told her.

Then she asked me, "where is Cyprus", since my birth place is written as Nicosia in the passport. I said "It's an Island".

She then said, "I didn't ask you what it was. I asked you where it was".

I said, "It's South of Turkey and off the coast of Israel in the Eastern corner of the Mediterranean" hoping that she would have at least heard of those two countries as an young American, and without a pause, I then said to her, "and it has been there for a while".

My girlfriend was discreetly nudging me gently as we sat in the car for me to stop making the border agent look foolish.

After few more questions as to where we had been and why and where we were going and why, we were allowed to cross into the US. I don't know whether she was testing me if i knew where Cyprus was, or whether she had never heard of the place. That's the reason why I said Israel and not Lebanon or Syria as the other countries closer to Cyprus than Israel. Most Americans have never left the state they were born in, let alone travel abroad or learn a second language.

My girlfriend was just happy we were not detained for few hours as a punishment for my "smart aleck" comments to the border agent.

How old are you? thought you were 59 why are you still at the girlfriend stage??? very sad.

No point you getting jealous and envious, VP.

I'm 56, btw.