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| | | (...) Excellent point. Without wanting to appear like I am cavilling I wish people would stand back and think about how they would think had they not been so fortunate to be born in their native land. I see a hint of arrogance in Larry's assertion (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | Snipped everything I agree with, and the comments on the remaining should be viewed somewhat lightheartedly... (...) Well of course you do. You DID see my humility score, right? The US IS the best country in the world, but not to worry, the UK is (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GL3vzG.1zB@lugnet.com... (...) There is no way that the US can be considered better than the UK. Name me one time ever you beat us at Cricket. lawrence (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Not Cricket (was Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Not ever even playing you... now that *in itself* proves our superiority. BTW you set FUT wrong... the very IDEA of Cricket is laughable so this is FUT .fun ++Lar (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Not Cricket (was Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) BWAAAA! I can't disagree there. I did see some people playing cricket here in NJ down by the Raritan, which was a pretty odd spectacle; however, most of them were Indian, Bangladeshi, and/or Pakistani, and cricket *is* of course the consummate (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Not Cricket (was Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Adam Wood
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| | | | | | | | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GL3xM2.7E3@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) the (...) in the (...) Well if you're going by cricket loss/win, doesn't that make -Australia- somewhere near the top? Hell, it even puts New (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm pretty sure they have, did the USA not have a good cricket system in the 1800's? Scott A (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | "humility" —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) I was not aware that there was a competition for the "best country in the world". If I were to choose, I doubt it would be the UK or the USA. I'd probably choose some small state which did not bully anyone, support human rights abuses - but (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "humility" —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | (...) Iceland, if it weren't for the inability to avoid tobacco smoke, would be very near the top of my list. As I understand it, modern Iceland is a derivative of the only real-world example of Privately Produced Law. The have almost no crime. And (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Merits of Iceland (was Re: "humility" —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) *And* they have some majorly kickin' 4 wheel drives. One of the carmags I read on airplanes had a "one lap around X" article which they do as a regular feature, and the X in this case was Iceland. They hooked up with an outfit called Artic (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "humility" —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) I have no real idea about that, but I have a feeling their system of government is based on the Danish system. Perhaps I'm thinking of Greenland? (...) We almost had a war with Iceland - the cod war. Yes, it was all about fish: (URL)And no one (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: "Centuries old piece of paper" still pretty darn good —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) Indeed. And rather than answer it - Larry deletes it! He needs to get his head out of the sand. Scott A (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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