Foreign Country Praise Thread....

[voluptuary_manque]

Agriculture

(The government prefers the name Co'te d'Ivoire)


Dominican Republic

Baseballs, I think



Dahomey

 

[TE999]

Baseballs, I think



Dahomey

Voodoo.

(Now known as Republic of Benin)


Paraguay

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Voodoo.

(Now known as Republic of Benin)


Paraguay

Mate'


Nigeria

 

[Hooper_X]

J'ai deux amours, le Canada et la France.
* basketball and movies respectively

 

[driphoney]

Mate'


Nigeria

Wole Soyinka


Le Canada
(La France must wait)

 

[Lady_Mornington]

Wole Soyinka


Le Canada
(La France must wait)

Mounties

Malawi

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Mounties

Malawi

World's biggest man-eating crocodile



Namibia

 

[Lady_Mornington]

World's biggest man-eating crocodile



Namibia

Desert elephants

Sri Lanka

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Desert elephants

Sri Lanka

Whole mountains full of tea plants.



Bangladesh

 

[Lady_Mornington]

Whole mountains full of tea plants.



Bangladesh

Micro-loans and Nobel laureate

Slovenia

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Micro-loans and Nobel laureate

Slovenia

Olympic skiing


Romania

 

[driphoney]

Olympic skiing


Romania

It has this thing called the Endless Column and it makes me think some very interesting thoughts, sort of like the Washington Monument does.


Macau

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It has this thing called the Endless Column and it makes me think some very interesting thoughts, sort of like the Washington Monument does.


Macau

Casinos



Bulgaria

 

[driphoney]

Casinos



Bulgaria

Part of NATO and EU, and looks lovely in pics. I want to visit!

Yemen

 

[Hooper_X]

World's biggest man-eating crocodile



Namibia

I'd be shocked if that wasn't really Australia, what with their giant marine crocs.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Turns out, I had the wrong country. It's Barundi. The reason that Australian man-eaters aren't as big as Gustave, yet, is that they were hunted to near extinction. The survivors still have plenty of time to grow, as crocs can live a century or more.

 

[Lady_Mornington]

Part of NATO and EU, and looks lovely in pics. I want to visit!

Yemen

Clan-based society and double economy (one for Yemenites and one for tourists. Riding an old crappy Tupolev on the way to Saana)

Iceland

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Clan-based society and double economy (one for Yemenites and one for tourists. Riding an old crappy Tupolev on the way to Saana)

Iceland

The world's greatest geneological/genetic data base and the whole place is run on geothermal power.



Bahrain

 

[Lady_Mornington]

The world's greatest geneological/genetic data base and the whole place is run on geothermal power.



Bahrain

Neighbour of UAE

Kazakhstan

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Neighbour of UAE

Kazakhstan

Ibex


Serbia

 

[Hooper_X]

The reason that Australian man-eaters aren't as big as Gustave, yet, is that they were hunted to near extinction.

Gustave is being feted in Burundi as possibly Africa's largest crocodile. Some are even saying he could be one of the world's biggest fresh water crocodiles.

Note the phrases "Africa's largest crocodile" and "world's biggest fresh water crocodiles." Now, admittedly this is mere supposition, but it seems to me that those qualifications are meant to exclude Australia's marine crocodiles.

 

[glynndah]

Ibex


Serbia

They have a world class water polo team.

Vatican City

 

[freshface]

They have a world class water polo team.

Vatican City

Sistine Chapel

Mongolia

 

[Lady_Mornington]

Sistine Chapel

Mongolia

Artful national id-cards

Belarus

 

[driphoney]

Artful national id-cards

Belarus

Famous Olympians: Olga Korbut, Vitali Scherbo to name a couple


Taiwan