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Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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Thu, 3 Jun 2004 04:18:33 GMT
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Actually, Scott's got you, Bruce:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=9476
" (This mindset was
> originally more than just language--the Commonwealth as
> it exists today was in fact less ambitious than the original
> schemes for Imperial Federation, which could not guarantee
> that Britain would remain at its head without making this
> point statuatory or based on the nebulous concept of race--
> which would have destroyed it. Imperial Defence schemes
> had the same basic failings until the really populous chunks
> like India and South Africa were out of the picture after
> 1947/8.) In this category of ungrateful, petulant children,
> who can possibly out-do the original Rebels, the United
> States?
Kicked their candy-(dang, can't complete that here on lugnet) out! No
taxation without representation! I'm half Irish anyway."
But yeah, you're right, in that half-Irish doesn't automatically mean
Irish-American.
Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> > Search for "<http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?q=bruce+half+irish
> > bruce half irish>". It is not the phrase i place in quotes, but you do say
> > you are half Irish!
>
> Not another word safari! If you have an exact cut and paste quote, I can figure
> it out. I'm 1/4 Irish. The most I can figure is that I was sloppy and said
> something about the Irish "half" of the family because I only deal with the
> German and Irish sides, and never the Norwegian or Dutch.
>
> But that's not saying I'm "Irish-American" in any case. :-)
--
Tom Stangl
Welsh-Russian-German-{who-knows-what-else}-Murican
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| (...) Hmmm...mmm, well......... I lied. :-) And I didn't say Irish-American. Nyahh. Nyahh, nyahh, nyahh! -->Bruce<-- 1/2 German, 1/4 Irish, 1/8 Norwegian, 1/8 Dutch, 100% 'Merican Mongrel. (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Not another word safari! If you have an exact cut and paste quote, I can figure it out. I'm 1/4 Irish. The most I can figure is that I was sloppy and said something about the Irish "half" of the family because I only deal with the German and (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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