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TOTSP is here to meet all of your technological needs, including tips for traveling to those tech gigs, customer accounts and or conferences abroad. Simply follow these fine rules for foreign travel, and all will be dandy (provided by the Onion.) The Onion Presents:Traveling abroad can be a wonderful experience, but it's even better when you're prepared. Here are some tips to help make your next trip a safe and enjoyable one:

• Get foreign TV schedules in advance to decide exactly what shows you want to watch.
• Always bellow, "I'm an American, you filthy foreign barbarians!" to ensure top-quality service while abroad.
• If you bend over to close your suitcase and hear a "Zwip! Thump!" sound, then discover a knife wobbling in the wall behind you, it could mean you've unintentionally become entangled in a web of international espionage and intrigue.
• Carrying cash is unwise when traveling abroad; be sure to purchase plenty of McDonald's gift certificates before you leave.
• Before leaving home, take your pets to a local humane society and have them put to sleep, get new pets when you come back.
• Many people in foreign countries do not speak English, you may need to speak louder and or slower in order to make yourself understood.
• Do not treat foreign waiters with the slightest shred of human dignity, a friendly attitude will only earn their disrespect.
• When traveling through Europe, remind everyone you encounter that, if not for America, they would all be speaking German. (Note: Does not work in Germany.)
• When traveling through Italy, be sure to get a load of the racks on some of those Ginas.
• If you see Karl Malden ominously narrating before a camera while you are checking into a hotel, keep an extra-close eye on your credit cards, a commercial may be being filmed with you as the subject-victim.
• When in Great Britain, remember to follow local customs and eat with a pair of tweezers.
• When reentering U.S., remove heroin-filled condoms from stomach immediately.
• Foreigners have lots of colorful local customs, many of them will not mind if you ask them to shoot bananas out of their vaginas, blow smoke rings with their anuses, or perform fellatio on mules. Live it up a little! It can't hurt to ask.

Now remember the rules must be explicity followed and uh, there are a few exceptions, but this is pretty much it, so have fun!