Tim Blair

Don't scoff at prostitute racing. It has a long history in European festivals (though a prostitute rigatta would probably bring in more money).

What would the equivalent of 'winning by a nose' be in such races?

"EuroWorld needs to establish its own identity and not be simply another cliched theme park with ferris wheels and people dressed like animals. And they cannot possibly allow mimes and expect anyone to want to go there."

Hmm, considering the vital nature of mimes for anti-war demonstrations, that's going to be quite a setback to EuroWorld's goal of presenting a truly complete depiction of life over here... At least nobody will have a problem with clowns, I trust.

Will they ditch the Euro for Itchy and Scratchy money? It's you know, fun!

"Planned prostitute races"?
Sounds interesting, but I thought that Europeans were opposed to GM, ah, organisms. Maybe its just a matter of a "ni" here or there.

Europe is a nice place... to visit. Good dinners, decent service, scenery, museums, old architecture and art.

BATBOY ENDORSES GORE

I still think WWN is a more accurate news source than The Sydney Morning Herald

THAT'S HILLARIOUS!!!!!......but sad

Ah, yes, the WWN...home of the Batboy. It's a great humour tabloid, which has about 1% factual contact. Great reading on a gloomy day.

cheshirecat

You mean it wasn't?
I've visited Spain helping chaperone high school kids who wanted to see the sights.
Isn't that theme-parking?
What else were we supposed to do?
Shoot somebody to keep current?
I mean, what else is there for Americans to do in Europe?

Actually, the Web was invented in Europe. DNA was discovered there, the theory of relativity etc.

Funny article, but I wouldn't get too smart about European innovation if I was American. A list of their achievements is likely to embarrass.

It's absolutely a lie to say that Europe hasn't invented anything for a century. Why, back in the 1930s Laszlo Biro, of Hungary, invented the ball point pen, without which NASA's moon landing would have been impossible. (Or at least a lot more difficult.)

Martin

Funny - in the russian space program, they solved that problem by issuing pencils!

"...no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century."

"Actually, the Web was invented in Europe. DNA was discovered there, the theory of relativity etc."

The special theory of relativity just makes it under the wire at 1905. Of course Einstein later moved to the U.S. and is now deceased so technically he isn't actually in Europe.

Tim Berners-Lee is a professor at MIT and lives in Cambridge Mass., but he was working at CERN in 1989 when he invented the world wide web. Of course everyone knows that Al Gore invented the Internet while serving in the U.S. Senate... (Just kidding, no nasty messages please.)

Friederich Miescher discovered "nuclein" in 1869, but that's going kind of far back. Watson (born Chicago, Il) and Crick (born Northhampton England) published their influential Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids in 1953 while they were in Cambridge, England.

Actually, didn't DARPA a part of the Pentagon invent the internet?

Re: Einstein, If you look at the list of Nobel prizes for the first half of the century most of the winners are Jews from Europe, then after about 1950 most of the winners are Jews from America. They should have been nicer to their religious minorities.

It's true though that we Americans need a boot in the ass about when it comes to creating more Picassos and Einsteins.