...just read "platty joobs" and thought the thread had drifted to a discussion of tropical fish.

SRS - only been to New York and L.A. and, for what it's worth, got on a bit better with U.S. citizens in the latter.

Bonzo - the horses had no choice in the Trooping of the Colour ceremony; you may say that the Andalusian Horse shows in Cordoba, Spain, are even more "magnificent" but, to get them to do all that, requires even more cruelty.