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Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:38:27 GMT
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Adam Howard wrote:
> Richard Dee <richard.dee@virgin.net> wrote in message
> news:MPG.122bb3a6c8e85431989730@lugnet.com...
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:51:45 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following
> > profundities...
> > Oh how criminal. The shame of it. Oh how you yanks are ripped-off in so
> > many ways.
> Yanks?  Dems fightin' words.  Yankees live up north above Kentucky and
> Virginia, Southerners live down south.  And Westerners live on the other
> coast.  We've also got Texans, Mid-westerners, American Indians, Amish, New
> Englanders (aka Yankees), Mormons, and we also go down to the state, county,
> and city levels too, and the list goes on.

Aw, he's jus' yanking yer chain, cousin.

> We're Americans if anything.

Yep!  By virtue of military superiority, if anything else.

> PS.  Why don't Europeans like us?  I've heard this before, but never
> understood why.

'Cause we're extremely arrogant.  Even more so than the French, and possibly
even the Dutch.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives



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  Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
 
Richard Dee <richard.dee@virgin.net> wrote in message news:MPG.122bb3a6c8e...net.com... (...) $1.25/gal (...) Yanks? Dems fightin' words. Yankees live up north above Kentucky and Virginia, Southerners live down south. And Westerners live on the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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