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Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:51:57 GMT
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 20:32:54 GMT, Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu>
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> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> NORAD almost freaked at the triple Scud launch near Midnight, Moscow time, that
> was taken as a nuke launch at first--turns out they were just sending some Happy
> New Year missiles to Chechnya. :( Stupid gits. (Not Russians in general, just
> whoever makes *those* boneheaded decisions.)
What about the childrens' balloons from one of those "whose gets the
farthest when the ticket is returned" which were detected as incoming
nukes by the Russian aged and failing early-warning system a few
months/years back?
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> > Jasper (total fireworks among the 16 million inhabitants of .nl was ~6
> > _kilo_tons.)
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> Hey, you can afford it.
Yup. Our $100 worth was pretty spectacular, if I do say so myself.
We'd bought a few _large_ ground-standing pots.
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> I'm upset that nobody here in the US covered the Amsterdam celebrations. They
> went for Berlin, Rome, then Paris, and London. Have they forgotten that Dutch
> investment pretty much controls the Western world?
Even _I_'ve never heard, let alone made, that claim. We're only #12 or
so on the list of countries ordered by GNP, IIRC, and maybe 5 or so
when ordered by productivity (that one's quite a feat considering our
pinko communist stance on welfare and institutionalised healthcare and
all).
> PS: I'll be joining you in August, at Uni Leiden. Nobody's shown me the secret
> handshake yet, though. :)
You want secret handshakes, join LSC (Leidsch Studenten Corps)
(actually, they're called something else now, since they merged with
the LVSV, leidse vrouwelijke studenten vereniging -- their female
counterpart -- it escapes me what, though). They're the frattiest
frat, so to speak. I believe the Leiden one is among the top-three,
possibly even _the_, oldest student clubs in the country. And that
means they're older than your _country_.
Are you coming as an exchange student or as a teacher? What subject?
Anyway, mail me sometime, we'll set up a night at the appropriate pub.
Jasper
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