Wenslauw wrote:
> On 2005-06-27, Louise Bremner <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ryan Ginstrom <ryan@ginstrom.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "JN" <ender13@execpc.com> wrote in message
> >> news:EyBve.5823$H41.4129@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> >> > Just so everyone knows:  Not all Americans confuse Austria (a land-locked
> >> > country in Europe) with Australia (a much bigger country half way around
> >> the
> >> > world, occupying its own continent)  The article is very clear about the
> >> > events occuring in Australia.
> >>
> >> Hi JN:
> >>
> >> That "Austria" bit is kind of a group in-joke, but there's no reason for you
> >> to have known that.
> >
> > It's fairly common throughout Usenet, I believe--not just in this little
> > patch of not-quite-Usenet. I frequent other groups where it's used.
>
> It's also fairly common outside of the Internet, I think. At least in the
> US

Geography isn't exactly a sepponian educational strongpoint.