From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Halfwits.
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:04:50 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In article <ATAYLOR.92Nov16093224@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
><In article <BxoJ4I.13A@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
><In article <ATAYLOR.92Nov13083841@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
><>In article <BxK5wq.K0r@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
><><  When Americans learn that the
><><  rest of the world only likes them for their money and (minimal)
><><culture,
><>
><>	
><>	Still don't get it, do you?
><>
><>	We-uns do not *CARE* if the rest of the world likes
><>	us or not. 
>
>< You're going to *real* soon when the Japanese pass you as the world's
>< foremost economic power.
>
>	Why?
>
>	And when? This prediction has been made at least once
>	a month for the last 8 years or so....the "date" is
>	always "real soon now".

	It may have already happened.  How many of you can remember the last 
time that they bought an American TV or stereo system?

><   Peeve:  When someone proves me correct about my perceptions of Americans.
><   !Peeve:  When someone proves me wrong about Americans.
>
>	Peeve: Halfwit hosers who clog up alt.peeves with their
>	nonpeeves.

Peeve:  Halfwit yanks who display their amazing ignorance day in, day out.

><   >	Just respect and mebbe fear us a bit, because
><   >	even after signing the latest treaty with the
><   >	FormerCommies, we'se still got shiploads and shiploads
><   >	of nucular weapons....
>
><	   And people complained about *Canadian* grammar and spelling...
>
>	It's called "dialect", sonny boy. Try reading some of
>	Sam Clemens and mebbe y'all will get a clue.

	I have.  However, I prefer to use proper English.  Besides, the local
dialect is damn near incomprehensible.

>< Well, so do the Russians.  Except they're selling theirs to the highest
>< bidder to bring cash into the country.
>
>	Then they ain't got them no more, right back-bacon-breath?

	They had more than you did, de-evolving piece of primordial slime.
Crawl back under that rock - the sun will rot you further.

>	ObPeeve: the economically illiterate. 

	Now *you* don't get it.

>	Anyone care to explain to this flannel-encrusted clod 	
>	what the word "sell" implies about ownership?

	Yeah - they got less.  But they still got lots.

><Peeve:  Feeling terrified about the prospect of, say, Iran or Libya or <insert
><favorite terrorist group here> getting a nuclear weapon.  
>
>	Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck! 
>
>	Don't worry yer pointy little head; NO ONE is going to nuke
>	Canada (except, mebbe, the Quebecois...).

	Ever hear of "fallout", son?  I thought not.  The winds that carry your
pollution up here and kill off our fish will carry radiation just as well.

>	And if they did, it wouldn't make the headlines outside
>	of Toronto, anyway.

	Toronto doesn't count - it's a New York wannabe.  Why a city would want
to be New York is beyond me.

><   >ObPeeve: hoser halfwits displaying the usual Canuck inferiority
><   >	 complex with the usual pseudo-cultured Canuck accent.<
>
><	   Hmf?  This one missed me completely.  As a matter of fact, someone
><   once commented to me that I sounded like an American.
>
>	Prolly insulting you; are youse too dim to twig when being
>	insulted face-to-face as well?

	Depends - are you the idiot that you seem face-to-face too?

>	Hardly surprising.

	Indeed.

><	   But I digress.
>
>	No, you induce profound boredom.

	I'm being trained to - I'm a law student.

	Sean
-- 
Sean Smith - Dalhousie University  "I'm not paid to think - that's management." 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                    Don Cherry for Prime Minister in
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