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- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194437.26818@netcom.com>
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- References: <2937207291.3.p00168@psilink.com> <1993Jan27.180307.9591@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:44:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.180307.9591@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
- >In article <2937207291.3.p00168@psilink.com> "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com> writes:
- >>I would like to make a passing observation about Texas. My whole family
- >>is from Texas. All my grandfathers/grandfathers/uncles/aunts, etc., are
- >>from Texas and live there now. I have lived in Texas. Do not mistake
- >>Texas with the United States. Legally, it is one of the states, but
- >>when one is in Texas, one is in a whole 'nother country, as they say.
- >
- >Molly Ivins's hero, a late 19th century reporter, once said that the
- >only trouble with Texas Baptists was that the preacher didn't keep
- >them under the water long enough.
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- (smile)
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- >
- >>Living in central New York gives one a perspective on rudeness. Not for
- >>nothing is New Yorker the international synonym for asshole. One has to
- >>go to the City for the full treatment, but it's amazing the level of
- >>interpersonal verbal abuse that transpires without fisticuffs.
- >
- >Here speaks a man who has not spent much time in Paris.
- >--
-
- Or London, if one removes the word "verbal" from his last sentence.
- We'll not mention Germany at all here.
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- In fact New Yorker is not the exact synonym for asshole generally
- in the USA. Hear the exact words of a marketdroid as we left
- San Francisco Int'l airport after a trip to visit Nynex:
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- "Jeeezus, easterners are such assholes!"
-
- Hear my words: "Jeezus, marketdroids are such assholes! The
- engineers I deal with world-wide are Just Fine, thanks." No,
- I didn't say that to him. He wouldn't have understood.
-
- There are plenty of synonyms in the US and internationally.
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- Why not be fair, and say that life in The Big City seems to create
- special cultural adaptations in the animal life there. Likewise
- all along the continuum between Big City and The Country.
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