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Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:51:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:

   Does the propaganda live up to reality in the USA?

Scott A

It could be worse - we could have idiot royalty. Now that would really be lame.

Yeah; we have our Queen, you have Tom Cruise (etc). ;)

Hmmmm, I’m not sure where you are going with that analogy. Tom Cruise remains Tom Cruise whatever I do, the Queen is your Queen because you subject yourself to her.


  
  
To be less silly, what country lives up to its propaganda?

You are stealing my point!


Aha! You admit that the UK does not live up to its propaganda! You should be ashamed and concede all points of debate immediately. :-)

  
   Is the U.S. the land of the free and the home of the brave, a land of opportunity? Yes, for the most part.

Even if one is black?

Yes.

  
   Hardly perfect (look how Bush got elected). Has it’s faults. But it makes my short list of countries I’d be willing to live in. Consider that my Irish ancestors voted with their feet on what they thought of Great Britain. :-)


They must have been the Schlickbernd’s of Dublin? ;)

Dougherty, Joyce, and Leonard, actually. More towards Cork. Except the idiot Leonard side - who bailed from Ireland for Scotland first, and found that even worse. :-)


  
Did they take part in the oppression of native Americans when they arrived?

Scott A

Arrived too late for that - I’m sure they would have joined in, like all the rest of the Europeans did if they had the chance, though. :-0


-->Bruce<--



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(...) I was referring jokingly to the reverence Tom is shown. (...) The UK is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. She’d be set aside if she tried to use what little powers she still holds. Interestingly, she could have stopped (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
 
(...) Yeah; we have our Queen, you have Tom Cruise (etc). ;) (...) I support the UK monarchy... but I tend not to read the tabloids. ;) (...) You are stealing my point! (...) Even if one is black? (...) They must have been the Schlickbernd's of (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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