1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Only in Nepal: People go to the bath after Chandra Ghrahan!
Only in Nepal: They bow their daughters, Nephews (Bhanjas, Bhanjis).
Only in Nepal: Egg comes under the catagory of fruit. (falfool)

So only in Nepal do you have "Juka" living inside your body.

Anyway, has anyway even wonder or remember why we used to take "Juka Ko Medicine" in Nepal. Has anyone taken it here? And I remember seeing "Juka" on my "Desa." I was a kid then and no one explained how I had them. Anyone remember?

Haha kg4mvp, thats true i remember taking my shoes off while entering to computer class. Daamm sometimes the whole class used to smell, it used to be suffocating.

Lol :) Hurray dai, i think when u eat too much mithai (sweets) or drink unfiltered/unboiled water u get Juka. Atleast thats what my mom use to say.

Ok one more:
Only in Nepal, students (esp kids) have to be scared to go to restroom during the class time. ( most of the cases)

Student: teacher ..teacher may i go to twilet?
Teacher: No! keep quiet and sit down

:o)

only in NEpal, teachers beat the $hit out of u if u don't do your h.w or cut your nails or polish your shoes.

on that note,
only in nepal do teachers carry a stick to class instead of teaching materials
only in nepal do students have to grab their ears as a punishment


only in america can you buy frozen food in a box, "nuke" it, and call it dinner

only in america do people pay a stranger a hundred dollars an hour to listen to their problems

only in america do parents drug up their kids because they "can't sit still"
isn't part of the beauty of youth and childhood to BE ACTIVE?!

Only in America there are TV channels dedicated for:
-religion
-fishing
-hunting (oh boy, turkey hunters probably have more techniques and gears than RNA)

Only in Nepal TV started and ended with National Anthem, even Sagarmatha TV in DC area starts with National Anthem.

Only in America, rich people vote more than poor people

"Only in America" thread is probably the longest thread in Sajhaland??????or is it??? with 268 posts as of right now.

Only in Nepal, people vote more than once

the beauty of this thread is not only in its length, but a lot of this stuff is really funny! and we have stayed focused on the two issues most of the time- only in america and only in nepal. other threads go all over the place.

bedrock, i like your good observations regarding bad television.
your mention of "sagarmatha tv" brought this one to mind-
only in nepal do people call sagarmatha "sagarmatha"

andolan, i like yours too, but
only in nepal people don't vote at all, because no one can reach a goddam compromise!

only in america,
we are posting the threads while at work so all can judge how much we are working hehehe including me

Only in Nepal do people expects the new bride to be a virgin (it doesn't apply for the guys though)

Only in America, old people also eat lot of candies..... whereas in nepal, it's only for kids

Only in America
if a kid talks too much, he has "Too much talking syndrome"
if a kid doesn't talk much, then he has "Not too much talking sysndrome"

while at the topic:

Only in Nepal do people call "Bahula" to anyone with any kind of mental illness and avoid them totally. I think its a very sad thing.

Only in Nepal, if you are antisocial and shy, you're the gyaniest kid.

bedrock still alive in this post :)

only in america when someone is angry we say "they are mad"...

while in america, we balaunu people by name,only in nepal do husbands call their wives "mother of their oldest son"
(eh, ramuko aama eta aau na; eh, govindko aama, bhat paakyo?)

only in nepal do students not actually board (live) at "boarding schools"

Only in America
there is a state (KS) that passes a law such as this "This is a law in the State of Kansas: When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they should both stop, and neither of them can go until the other one has gone."
What were the lawmakers thinking?