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- From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
- Message-ID: <Bxu2w2.Ct9@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:04:50 GMT
- References: <ATAYLOR.92Nov13083841@gauss.nmsu.edu> <BxoJ4I.13A@cs.dal.ca> <ATAYLOR.92Nov16093224@gauss.nmsu.edu>
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- In article <ATAYLOR.92Nov16093224@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
- ><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".
-
- It may have already happened. How many of you can remember the last
- time that they bought an American TV or stereo system?
-
- >< 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.
-
- Peeve: Halfwit yanks who display their amazing ignorance day in, day out.
-
- >< > 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.
-
- I have. However, I prefer to use proper English. Besides, the local
- dialect is damn near incomprehensible.
-
- >< 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?
-
- They had more than you did, de-evolving piece of primordial slime.
- Crawl back under that rock - the sun will rot you further.
-
- > ObPeeve: the economically illiterate.
-
- Now *you* don't get it.
-
- > Anyone care to explain to this flannel-encrusted clod
- > what the word "sell" implies about ownership?
-
- Yeah - they got less. But they still got lots.
-
- ><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...).
-
- Ever hear of "fallout", son? I thought not. The winds that carry your
- pollution up here and kill off our fish will carry radiation just as well.
-
- > And if they did, it wouldn't make the headlines outside
- > of Toronto, anyway.
-
- Toronto doesn't count - it's a New York wannabe. Why a city would want
- to be New York is beyond me.
-
- >< >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?
-
- Depends - are you the idiot that you seem face-to-face too?
-
- > Hardly surprising.
-
- Indeed.
-
- >< But I digress.
- >
- > No, you induce profound boredom.
-
- I'm being trained to - I'm a law student.
-
- Sean
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- Sean Smith - Dalhousie University "I'm not paid to think - that's management."
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Don Cherry for Prime Minister in
- 01SSMITH@AC.DAL.CA or smith@ug.cs.dal.ca '93 in Canada!
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