Reply #9: Once when I was spending the summer in Japan (back in my teaching days),

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I lived in the same rooming house as a young couple who were both models.

They managed to land jobs as extras in an American movie that was being filmed in Tokyo. Mostly it was pretty boring standing around, but one day, they came back with a story: They were talking to one of the crew members, and he asked them, "How would you guys like to drive down to Hong Kong over the weekend?"

They had to break the news to him that Hong Kong was about 1500 miles away on the Asian mainland and that Japan is an island country.