Exactly halfway around the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, so the story goes, there lies a world exactly like the Earth, but exactly opposite. It’s made up of antimatter, and things are precisely reversed there. Writers from John Norman to Vladimir Nabokov have played with this idea.
Some examples:
[li]At the Italian restaurant, as the background music softly plays “Blue Sails in the Sunrise,” your waiter brings you, prior to the main course, a large bowl of pasto.[/li][li]Auto accidents are frequent due to the government law requiring Skid Braking Systems on vehicles.[/li][li]If your home is not on a public wastewater system, you have on your property an antiseptic tank, in which household wastes are converted to Listerine.[/li]
Have fun with it.
They have jails where you can take your children to play, but only at night, after the moon sets in the South.
The arid tundra of the Pacific is quenched only occassionally as dirt rains from the sky after condensing into cumulo-nimbus clods (sp on purpose) over the American Ocean.
Mugs are held upside down and eeffoc is ingested through the bellybutton (babies inutero, of corse, recieve nutrition through their mouth from their father).
the eeffoc doest fall out, of corse, becase gravity is now ytivarg and there for upside down too. we all wear shoes made of extraordinarly light matereal and get really mad when we drop something because it immedeatly is hurtled out into shallow space.
…Incidents of violence against heterosexuals are increasing. In one incident, a man was thrown into the mud by a raging group of gay men screaming “Winter white is not a colour, straight boy!”
“Can you imagine letting those neanderthals into our design floors?” scoffed a man identified only as “Stefan”. “Ridiculous! Morale would plummet! There’s no place for heterosexuals in the fashion industry.”…
Canadian voters who are social-democratic actually vote for the social-democratic party, as opposed to the party that pretends to be social-democratic but is actually right-wing; except of course for the supporters of the sovereigntist Ontario Block.
Every American can identify Canada’s provinces, territories, and capitals, name the Canadian prime minister and governor-general, and follow Canadian politics with interest. By contrast, most Canadians have never heard of New York City.
Canadian tourists are despised world-wide for their ignorance and loutism. Canadians routinely visit the Loosely Affiliated States of America and ask questions like, “You guys got indoor plumbing here?” and “We’ve been here for almost a week and we haven’t seen a violent crime yet. What gives?”
Everyone loves politicians, because they are universally known to be honest, trustworthy, and have the best interests of their nations at heart.
AOL’ers complain that the GUI is “too simple” and want a command line prompt back.
Bill Gates gives the code to windows away.
Linux continues to dominate the desktop market.
Apple buys Microsoft stock.
Steve Jobs annual MacWorld Address is low key, calm, and contains product anouncements that are timely, and advance the Apple line far ahead of the PC rivals.
