Good old USA?

[xyzzyplugh]

Seriously, can you name one good thing that came out of America?

[froggequene]

Seinfeld?

[lodekka]

REM, Frasier and Reece's Peanut Butter Cups - am I allowed three?

[beenee]

New York City.

[magpie]

Calista Flockhart.mmmmm!!

[xyzzyplugh]

Well, I'm waiting.. tap tap tap..

[andy hughes]

'N.Y.P.D. Blue' Nuff said.

[andy hughes]

Oh, and Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers!

[Quizmonster]

How about potatoes and tobacco, courtesy of Sir Walter Raleigh? I'm a non-smoker nowadays, but cigarettes, pipes and cigars gave me pleasure for many years...and I still love chips, bangers'n' mash, roast spuds of a Sunday....etc.

[ravenhair]

The movie industry, Tony Soprano, R&B, caesar salad, Dorothy Parker and Bill Bryson.

[ChrisPBacon]

The Simpsons.

[snotmonkey]

bob dylan, the larry sanders show and babylon 5.

[Hippy]

Tartanwizard... Thomas Edison did not invent the incandescent light bulb, this was first made and manufactured by Joseph Swan from Sunderland who worked in Newcastle upon Tyne. His invention was hampered by poor sealing and lack of a good enough vacuum. Edison used better tools some 20 years later to improve the vacuum and devised the well known screw fitting to make the device marketable. Another factor in Edison's success was the greater availbility of electricity generation and supply by that time. Joseph Swan went on to improve the filament material to increase the lifespan of the bulbs.

See target=_blank>http://www.timmonet.co.uk/html/joseph_swan.html> for more info.

On the original question, I suppose xyzzyplugh might be thinking of "the road to Canada" or some such.

[Hippy]

Let me try again, I don't know what's happening here. I've typed the url and it gets bits added on by Answerbank http://www.timmonet.co.uk/html/joseph_swan.htm

[The Rut]

Sgt Bilko

[Jam]

Making dumb comments to english people is what the people of the usa are good for, such examples are "Do you know the Queen?" and "Do you have computers in the UK". Sometimes when people ask this i get really irate and says "do you think all 60million people know the queen" LOL ha.

[honkytonkman]

Rock 'n' roll music...

[sft42]

Nothing. We gave them John Lennon one of the great poets and musicians of our time and they shot him dead.