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- From: st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:32 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1993Jan2.224353.25750@netcom.com>, eclipse@netcom.com (Brian McCullough) writes...
- >st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.) writes:
- >: In article <i3558.725901920@newsie>, i3558@newsie.dc.dk (Soren Michael Roug) writes...
- >: >I seems to me that this discussion is mostly, if not completely carried
- >: >out by americans. My advice to you is that if you want to improve your
- >: >english language then learn the King's english, not those barbarian dialects
- >: >the yanks choose to utter. It is my understanding that the yanks find a
- >: >properly spoken UK accent "cute". Well, I won't call myself an expert, but
- >: >I have been to USA several times, and some of those wordings one get to
- >: >hear notably in California make my toes curl. And behold; In some restaurants
- >: >they don't give people utensils to eat with.
- >: >--
- >:
- >: Only a Californian would call California a part of the civilised world.
-
- >: I guess I'll just have to get my groceries in Nevada.
- >:
- >:
- >
- >Complaints about uncivilized behavior -- from a TEXAN???
- >
-
- Quite. One must eb thoroughly scooled in the true meaning of uncivilised
- behavior to be able to recognise it in all its forms. This is the reason
- why Californians cannot detect their own lack of couth. They are amateurs.
- Conversely, mere possession of skill in an art does not imply a love of it.
- We Texans (even the natives, of which I am not one) know civilised places
- and people when we see them, and we know precisely where to find them when
- we need them. We consider them to be marvelous things to visit, although
- we would prefer not to take up residence there.
-
- >...Brian McCullough (a Coloradan exiled to California for criminal lack of
- >prejudice)
-
- What, you made the mistake of saying that five downs were too many, and the
- players should have been both able to count that high and sportsmen enough
- to admit it?
-
- >
- >ObJoke:
- >
- >How many Colorado Springs residents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- >
- >Only one, but it better be a man. If a woman is caught doing the screwing,
- >her civil rights will be revoked.
- >
-
- I thought that if it was a woman, they demanded that she had to be licensed
- and inspected and have her hooves dipped before she could engage in those
- activities.
-
- >--
- >---------------------------------
- >Brian C. McCullough eclipse@netcom.netcom.com Opinions of self only
- >
- >"The early worm goes forth with zeal to give the hungry birds a meal.
- >His brother has no such intention, and lives to draw his old-age pension."
- > -Montagu C. Butler
-
- My wife went to Harvard and all I got was this lousy .sig!
- Russ Ault, aka st1ns@jetson.uh.edu
- (For the moment, anyway. I reserve the right to
- polymorph myself into something more formidable.)
-
-