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- From: emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus)
- Subject: Surly French waiters
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation Research Institute, Grenoble
- References: <Bxx8wr.Hsp@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <mattm-181192101012@mcmelmon.apple.com> <michaelh.722202225@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:43:20 GMT
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- michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane) writes:
- >>> Ok, Matthew, what about that surly waiter you had??
- >>He was French.
- >need he say more?
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- mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >(you are correct, however, about it being *your* fault the Frenchman
- >exhibited his natural inclinations towards French-ness...)
-
- So Frenchmen are naturally surly, are they? Well I suppose it might
- seem that way to Americans, stupid and vulgar as they are.
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- ,
- Eamonn
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