Ah - well, it was still more spectacle than I think we apply to pro football, excepting the World Cup, but that makes more sense. :)

It's so BIG. It's just... hard to get my head around. I mean, I know it's huge, but I'm used to living in a country that you can drive between the furthest points within a day. No wonder the different states are so very different. Yeesh. And, hee - I can sympathise with the poor, confused German. :)

It's says it so succinctly, doesn't it? Someone at work has now scrawled next to the cartoon, "Hey, my daughter has an MSc in Maths!" (And, she later told me, a BSc in Nuclear Physics.)