You're from Uruguay.

[Duane Campbell]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:08:37 +0800 Laurence Horn

> It's from a reanalysis of the actual expression, "You go Uruguay
> and
> I'll go mine".  No, I'd never heard that one either

Another phrase, similar only in that it involved a country, is
Afghanistan story. A city editor, prior to September 11, might tell a cub
reporter, "Don't waste your time on that Afghanistan story," meaning a
story that had no interest to the newspaper's readers.

Things have changed.

D