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- From: jim@halcyon.com ()
- Subject: Re: in American defense...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.073846.18052@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <katherim.724368770@sfu.ca> <1992Dec15.034202.13971@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:38:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.034202.13971@vlsi.polymtl.ca> d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens) writes:
- >Katherine Merle Mason (katherim@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
- >: A comedien in Montreal (e with a / accent that my computer does not do) once
- >: said that when Americans are learning French they should be taught useful
- >: phrases. Instead of where is the bus-stop, or where is the hotel, they
- >: should learn to say, "Don't shoot me, I'm Canadian."
-
- Cool thought. Actually, I learned to say 'monge le merde' as my first
- nifty saying in french..
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- >:
- >
- >I like this one, Bravo, hope it starts a flaming hell. In all
- >my travels in Europe, Africa and southeast asia I have seen
- >countless times americans with patches, pins, T-shirts, with the
- >canadian flag on them.
-
- I have displayed the maple leaf on my wall for the last 20 years.
- I love Canada at least as much as I love the USA.
- Canada is one of the finer places on Earth... you dont have to
- be a canadian to see that.
-
- >Being abroad and seing these big red maple
- >leafs I think , oh a fellow countrymen, but no it is a bounch of
- >fraudulent americans who are surely ashame of something their country
- >is doing. I wonder what... Can it be that the US puts it's nose in other
- >people's business and then claim it is for *their* own good.
-
- Hmm.. you must have been eating some of that good fraudulent american
- psilocybin when you composed this tirade.
-
- >When I ask the american frauds there reason for doing this, they say
- >people are aggressive towards them when they think they are americans.
- >Again we wonder why. The thing that gets me mad is that after ruining
- >the reputation of their country abroad, they are trying to ruin ours;
- >american tourists are reputed to be the most obnoxious in the world,
- >they think they have a copyright on the best way to live and they
- >export this stereotype everywhere they go like a plague.
-
- Ever talk to German tourists? They rank on the obnoxious scale with the american
- tourist without any effort. And the Japanese tourist.. very very scary
- people.
- >
- >--
- >Jean-Yves Desbiens | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
- >Etudiant en genie informatique |
- >Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can |
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Ooo shit.. I bet you go to Las Vegas every Christmas and wear a
- plaid wool beanie to the card tables. You could be a social disease!
-
- Jim
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