From: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
To: "triumph list" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: ranting over politics
Date sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:57:48 -0600
Send reply to: "Dave Terrick" <dterrick@home.com>
>
> my I suggest alt.bla.bla.bla for those who have taken a "funny retort"
> personally?
>
> As a Canadian, I can laugh at all of this nonsense because we are too polite
> to have pissed anyone off - of course perhaps this is why we are always
> overshadowed by Big Bro. That said, I propose the following syllogisms.
> Refute them if you dare!
>
>
> The French and English have warred for centuries so mutual dislike is
> cultural
> Canada is the product of the French and English fighting over foreign lands
> WE are still screwed up - and still fight amongst ourselves.
> (is this "our" civil war, this regionalization of politics?)
>
> The Americans are English "refusniks" who are now more influenced by Spanish
> than English custom
> The French and Spanish have not always been friends either, both wanting a
> dominant role over the other
> The Americans have the stubborn-ness of the French (Anglo-haters) and the
> conquistidorial nature of the Spanish - causing you to be right "all of the
> time" and "forcing your opinion" on your little brother to the North....etc.
>
> Now, for anyone out there that does NOT get that this is a tongue-in-cheek
> parody of real history and the crap of late on this list...... please flame
> away. I'll just disappear. Maybe. I think we are all a bit burned out on
> everything political, what with you trying to elect a President and us a
> full government.....
>
> Dave Terrick
Well said Dave,I don't know who will "triumph" in the end but the
way things are going,it won't be the cars!
An Englishman living in France near the Spanish border.
Mike Kitchener
60 TR3A TS 75178
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