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Re: center/centre
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Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:29:37 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@superonline.com%nospam%>
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Matthew Wilkins <mwilkins@nospam.nai.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Peter Callaway writes:
> >
> > > Not that I'm against patriotism (but I am against Australian news • services
> > > treating America as the centre of the universe - not the USA's fault).
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> >
> > Well, if this is any comfort, Israeli news treat USA in the exact same • way.
> >
> > Shiri :-)
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> (Don't tell anyone, but I'm an _American_ and I'm tired of the *American*
> media treating America like it's the centre of the universe.)
Hey, isn't America the exact centre of the world?..:-)
PS. I have a question, to Washington people most probably. Do your
policemen/security guys/whatever stops the regular traffic for hours since
the president's car(convoy) is passing? Ours do for your president..:-) (you
know, Clinton is here in Turkey right now)
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> -Cheese, president-in-exile of the People's Republic of Alaska.
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> I'm a patriot; Alaska first! Woo hoo! Go Alaska!! I just hate living
there.
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| Selçuk <teyyareci>" <sgore@nospam.superonline.com> Selçuk Göre asks...... (...) Having been a cop here in Washington State, I've only had the "pleasure" of shutting my town down for a president once.....perhaps you meant that OTHER Washington on the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I don't know about Washington, DC, but in most other parts of the country, when the Prez visits, his route is (semi-secretly) mapped, and then those roads are shut down shortly before he goes through. Steve (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I live right near Washington, and they never block the streets for the president... oh, wait; you're referring to Washington DC (the centre of government) not Washington State. D'oh!! *grin* But, yeah, whenever the President comes to Portland, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Long ago, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton exchanged political favors, and Jefferson got to go ahead and move the capitol out of New York City to its permanent location on that swamp on the Potomac River. Washington D.C. became the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) (Don't tell anyone, but I'm an _American_ and I'm tired of the *American* media treating America like it's the centre of the universe.) -Cheese, president-in-exile of the People's Republic of Alaska. I'm a patriot; Alaska first! Woo hoo! Go (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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