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- From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
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- Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- References: <5842@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> <BxtoD6.6By@cs.dal.ca> <5844@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:21:12 GMT
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- Line up for this week's self-flagellation fest...
-
- In article <5844@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Red Jack) writes:
- >smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
- >
- >>In article <5842@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (All of our represanatives are still busy; please continue to hold) writes:
- >>>smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
- >>>
- >>>"It's hard to tell Canadians apart from really boring white people,
- >>>unless they're dressed up to go outside."
- >>>National Lampoon: "Foreigners and How They Got There."
- >
- >> Then we look stylish. ;) We might be boring, but would you rather
- >>be bordered by Libya? I thought not.
- >
- >If we were bordered by Libya, then we would have fixed the problem
- >long ago. The only reason why we have yet to invade Canada is that you
- >are amusing. Next to Brian Mulroney, even James Earl Carter looks
- >good, peanut farmer cracker he may be.
-
- Agreed. Anyone want a PM, slightly used, *really* cheap?
-
- Then again, we don't elect senile ex-B-movie actors either.
-
- >Why your little country has resisted
- >becoming the next ten states for so long still puzzles us.
-
- Because we have taste. Besides, "manifest destiny" is passe. As
- Pierre Burton (a Canadian author) once said, we define ourselves as not
- Americans.
-
- >If anything
- >you and your countrymen have persisted in toadying to the various kings
- >and queens of Britian longer than any of the other subjects of the crown.
- >Clearly running Canada as a colony was not profitable but the crown
- >kept it on as a reminder of what their very own citizenry once was.
-
- Yeah, but you see, we have *real* royalty. We don't have to make it
- up like Americans do. From the orgies of public toadying I see when any
- member of the British Royal Family visits the US, I'd say that a lot of
- people down there are regretting the Revolution.
-
- Sean
-
- ObPeeve: Taking 2 hours to complete a journey that usually takes
- 1/2 hour because of traffic. There wasn't even much snow down. Halifax must
- have been invaded by Americans who haven't the slightest idea how to drive in
- snow.
- --
- 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!
- Disclaimer: These ideas are mine...ALL MINE!! 'Cause noone else'd want 'em.
-