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From: [e-mail] (Mark Fulk)
Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
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Organization: University of Rochester
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:03:07 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> "James F. Tims" <[e-mail]> 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.

>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.
--
Mark A. Fulk            University of Rochester
Computer Science Department    [e-mail]