American or Canadian, but yeah, usually from that part of the world. Incidentally, one time I was stopped in town by a bunch of young giggling Japanese girls - it was like being pounced on by the Sailor Moon gang - anyway, they stuck a camera in my hand and got me to take a photo of them standing underneath and pointing at the Tesco sign outside our local branch of the store. They were most insistent that the sign be in the picture, so I've often wondered if the word means something rude in Japanese?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'