(And regarding And why are Americans so easy to fool into believing that we all ride kangaroos to school?: Probably for the same reasons that the rest of America is shocked to visit the southeast and find us wearing shoes, and speaking understandable (if somewhat accented) english, in complete sentences. And we actually have, shock, books down here. And computers. And running water and indoor plumbing. Yeah. ::headdesk, because Americans as a rule are stupid.::)