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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.92Nov16093224@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:32:24 GMT
- References: <1dphl6INNoi7@agate.berkeley.edu> <BxK5wq.K0r@cs.dal.ca>
- <ATAYLOR.92Nov13083841@gauss.nmsu.edu> <BxoJ4I.13A@cs.dal.ca>
- Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu
- Followup-To: alt.hoser.halfwit.wank.wank.wank
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
- Lines: 79
- In-Reply-To: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:09:53 GM
-
- <In article <BxoJ4I.13A@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
- <In article <ATAYLOR.92Nov13083841@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
- <>In article <BxK5wq.K0r@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
- <>< When Americans learn that the
- <>< rest of the world only likes them for their money and (minimal)
- <><culture,
- <>
- <>
- <> Still don't get it, do you?
- <>
- <> We-uns do not *CARE* if the rest of the world likes
- <> us or not.
-
- < You're going to *real* soon when the Japanese pass you as the world's
- < foremost economic power.
-
- Why?
-
- And when? This prediction has been made at least once
- a month for the last 8 years or so....the "date" is
- always "real soon now".
-
- < Peeve: When someone proves me correct about my perceptions of Americans.
- < !Peeve: When someone proves me wrong about Americans.
-
- Peeve: Halfwit hosers who clog up alt.peeves with their
- nonpeeves.
-
- < > Just respect and mebbe fear us a bit, because
- < > even after signing the latest treaty with the
- < > FormerCommies, we'se still got shiploads and shiploads
- < > of nucular weapons....
-
- < And people complained about *Canadian* grammar and spelling...
-
- It's called "dialect", sonny boy. Try reading some of
- Sam Clemens and mebbe y'all will get a clue.
-
- But I doubt it.
-
- < Well, so do the Russians. Except they're selling theirs to the highest
- < bidder to bring cash into the country.
-
- Then they ain't got them no more, right back-bacon-breath?
-
- ObPeeve: the economically illiterate.
-
- Anyone care to explain to this flannel-encrusted clod
- what the word "sell" implies about ownership?
-
- I din't think so.
-
- <Peeve: Feeling terrified about the prospect of, say, Iran or Libya or <insert
- <favorite terrorist group here> getting a nuclear weapon.
-
- Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck!
-
- Don't worry yer pointy little head; NO ONE is going to nuke
- Canada (except, mebbe, the Quebecois...).
-
- And if they did, it wouldn't make the headlines outside
- of Toronto, anyway.
-
- < >ObPeeve: hoser halfwits displaying the usual Canuck inferiority
- < > complex with the usual pseudo-cultured Canuck accent.<
-
- < Hmf? This one missed me completely. As a matter of fact, someone
- < once commented to me that I sounded like an American.
-
- Prolly insulting you; are youse too dim to twig when being
- insulted face-to-face as well?
-
- Hardly surprising.
-
-
- < But I digress.
-
-
- No, you induce profound boredom.
-