Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Sentences I Wanted to Write This Week (But Didn't)

Currently, there are an estimated 250,000 Americans living in the United Kingdom, but this is also the same estimate which gets repeated every time an article appears about Americans in Great Britain appears.

Craig Kessler, a professor of population studies at the University of Westminster, said on Monday that there probably were a "billion" Americans living in London at the very least.

"You want a number?" he said. "Ok, there are more Americans in Great Britain than there are stars in the sky. Really, numbers just don't go that high."

Surprisingly, no one in the press office at the American embassy was available for comment.

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