Yes, the Green Bay Packers are the WORLD Champions. You may have seen them carried on the shoulders of all those Cheeseheads, looking like so many hors d’oeuvres, very large and helmeted hors d’oeuvres.
I find it necessary to capitalize WORLD, in order to emphasize the importance of all things American. (America, We are the World!) We have just finished the WORLD Series in which all the teams in the world competed. Sadly, the world is messed up and Texas lost.
What in the world, you ask, does this have to do with anything? Well, I feel sorry for those others, the not-the-world people and those places where they huddle together, places they call countries.
We took the best word, and they get the leftovers: planet, globe, cosmos, creation, and universe. Try plugging those in front of champions. See why it makes me sad?
We have two choices. First, we can change the word WORLD to U.S.A. or North American (Canada and Mexico don’t count, remember?). Or, we can subjugate and dominate all those other people and their countries until they are part of our new WORLD order.
You may be asking, “Is this one of those tricky multiple-choice type quizzes that teachers love to give?” Of course not. Everybody knows it would cost way too much to make new t-shirts, beer mugs, and pennants with the new logo. Plus, world domination is way more fun.
Something's here that is not the world! I've given you some hints.
Not enough hands to cover all those huddling places.
year-struck 
The children and I just had a conversation very similar to this two nights ago. My eight year old asked what other countries played in the WORLD series. The lengthy conversation was both sad and full of irony.
Most of us are so used to hearing things like the World Series that we don’t even think about it. It’s interesting that your eight-year-old asked about it.
Our world-wide arrogance is so true, and so sad. Actually my reaction always vascillates between anger, embrassment, sadness–so it was nice to be able to chuckle in frustration.
It’s true. I love America, but sometimes it is so much like a self-absorbed teenager, I don’t whether to laugh, cry, or take away its car keys.
Well done! I didn’t deal well with teenage tantrums so relocated to one of the places that are out of this world 🙂
There are some lovely places out there, and you often get a much better view of America from a distance.