Oh, you're a nasty one, Helen - but we love you, too!
Gil's message was a textbook example of American jingoism. As you may have noticed, not one person agreed with him. If anything, I think the Americans here may be guilty of reverse jingoism - we tend to speak of everything foreign as wonderful, but we aren't so favorable in our opinion of our own country. If fact, I've noticed that several U.S. Mudcatters use British spellings (colour, favour, etc.) with those nasty extraneous u's.
Anyhow, we like Australians just fine, and many of us even like Hulk Hogan, or whatever his name is....
-Joe Offer-