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From: tylee@austin.ibm.com (Ter-Yuan Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: NBC......Gan!
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:52:53 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin Advanced Workstation Division
Originator: tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com


In article <uc=vHfkfp8@atlantis.psu.edu>, jclee@atlantis.psu.edu (Chieh-Sheng Lee;;blue) writes:
> I waited two hours just for seeing the appearance of the athletes from
> "Chinese Taipei" in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and finally
> it's "Swaziland". After the commercial, however, the camera switched
> to the Torch outside the stadium and what did I see next? "Tchekoslovakia"
> (Czechoslovakia).........
> 
> I can't help but say: Gan, NBC! (If my memory serves me right, they

A translation for non-Taiwanese-dialect speaker.

GAN: fuck.

I have the emotion too.

> screwed me up 4 years ago, too).
> 
> Jason Lee
> 
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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: God knows ! Re: Racial Problem?
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:02:54 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

umhuang4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Hui Huang) writes:

>Money talks. Everything else is irrelevent. Females like to find someone
>with big bucks so that they don't need to work hard.

>I don't like western women because they are too lazy.

is this a joke?  If it is, would you pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssee
include a smiley face with it next time.

I am very dumb, and I cant tell if people are being sarcastic or not.

thanks.             

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

PS: if you do mean it, please e-mail me.  I would like to discuss
    something with you.  Thanks.  

all flames-->abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
From: g803352@phys.nthu.edu.tw (Chia-hei Yang(Huan-chiu Ku))
Subject: A New Joke about Taiwan and China
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:47:40 GMT
From: stanley@nttgoso.ntt.jp (Stanley Hsieh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: repost:  INFO ON CSA/TSA IN JAPAN WANTED
Date: 24 Jul 92 09:58:45 GMT
Organization: NTT Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Originator: stanley@nttgoso

Hi,
sorry for this repost,

     Does anyone here have any information like phone #s and e-mail addresses
for any Chinese Students' Association, Taiwanese Students' Association, or
any Chinese society, group, organization of the same sort in Japan, especially
in the Tokyo area.

     I really want some feed-backs if you have any.  I know there are quite a
few Chinese students in Tokyo from Taiwan, but where are they ?  Appreciated 
if you can help me looking for some.

Sincerely yours,

Stanley

email: stanley@nttgoso.ntt.jp
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Stanley Hsieh
NTT Communication Switching Laboratories
Transport Network Systems Laboratory
Photonic Switching Systems Research Group
3-9-11, Midori-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180, Japan
(0422)59-2545   FAX (0422)59-2473
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From: kwh@CS.CMU.EDU (Kevin Hartmann)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Zen story
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:31:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: GLOBE.KWH.92Jul27103117
Distribution: soc
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Originator: kwh@GLOBE.EDRC.CMU.EDU




	
	One day a zen student and his teacher Kevvy-Wevvy attended 
	a dinner that was hosted by one of their neighbors.
	At the end of the dinner, the host stood up and spoke about 
	many of the guests.  He said something about most all of the 
	guests, but overlooked the student and his teacher.

	WHen the host sat down, the student asked his teacher,
	"What should we do about such a rude host?"

	The teacher replied, "Have you eaten enough?"

	The student answered, "Yes."

	"Then take this knife and kill the host."
From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Other country's police rummaging around in your country
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:46:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

In article <DRW.92Jul17133744@banach.mit.edu>, drw@banach.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
|> In article <1422vfINNkq4@network.ucsd.edu> fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister) writes:
|>    Cheaper and of better quality? While this _might_ be true about some
|>    places, it isn't about a lot: Nigeria, for example.
|>
|> Well, most people would rather be governed badly by people of the same
|> "nationality" as themselves, than be governed well by outsiders.  So
|> an imperial government has to do much better than a local government
|> before people ("the customers") will view it as having better
|> "quality".

But it was colonialism, or neo-colonialism which introduced the
idea of nationality. Before colonialism, one tribe would not
have seen a neighbouring tribe as any more "their people" than
the colonial power. In the example with which I am most
familiar, for example, the Gold Coast, now Ghana, British
colonialism was secured by the British leading a coalition
of smaller tribes against the dominant Ashanti. The smaller
tribes did not see the Ashanti as any more "their people" than
they did the British, and thus would have no reason to prefer
Ashanti overlordship than British overlordship (indeed, given
the history of Ashanti aggression against them, the latter
would seem preferable).

Similarly, the Protestant tribe in Northern Ireland prefers
British overlordship to Catholic overlordship.

Matthew Huntbach
From: mckeonj@ul.ie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Go suck a soldier! (was Re: marmite)
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:20:38 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

In article <1992Jul20.131841.7666@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>> "suck soldiers"?
> 
> (a) British soldiers' main peacetime duty is to guard infants in their first
> few days of life. To keep their charges happy, many young squaddies give them a
> finger to suck on.
> 
> (b) The only way to eat a soft boiled egg is to provide a piece of brown bread
> which has been buttered and spread with Bovril. This is cut into thin slices
> (soldiers) which are dipped into the yolk and sucked. The white is eaten
> with a spoon. Unfortuantely some renegades persist in pretending that Marmite
> is a suitable spread for the bread.
I think we may have invented a new insult:
"Oh, go suck a soldier!"
which would have different connotations on each side of the ocean,
but be equally insulting.
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.british:10710 rec.arts.books:13175
From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Biggles Books
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:57:19 GMT
Organization: SunSelect
NNTP-Posting-Host: tyger.east.sun.com

#lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance Not Here Smith) writes:
#: I have a friend who is interested in buying the Biggles series of books.
#: Unfortunately they are almost unknown in the U.S. (No doubt another sign
#: that the States remain uncivilized.) I thought I'd turned to the net
#: to see if I could answer some questions.

According to a review in last week's Grauniad Weekly, a bunch of
Biggles books are to be reissued to commemorate the Nth anniversary of
the first. The article quotes a UN (?UNESCO) source that Biggles is one
of the most popular, widely-translated and widely-read characters in
the world.  However, the new editions will be edited for political
correctness:  no alcohol, no romantic involvements...

(The article was most interesting. I, like many others, assumed that
"Captain" W.E.Johns - the rank was a fiction - was a jingoistic
Imperialist right- winger, but there is evidence that he was actually
something of a liberal and pacifist: we tend to forget that back in the
1930's a lot of people spoke "like that".)

(I don't remember any of the books now, but I *do* remember investing
2/- in an Airfix Auster kit and configuring it as described in one
Biggles book. 1958, perhaps?)

Geoff

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From: jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Roundabouts (was St Albans)
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:17:16 GMT
Organization: Wyse Technologies San Jose, Ca

In article <4736@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater) writes:
>No. It used to be the case in France, this followed from their ancient
>"priorite a droite" rule. It is, of course, quite silly, since it makes it easy
>for traffic to *enter* the roundabout, and *hard* for it to leave. Furthermore
>as you go around the roundabout you keep having to slow/stop to let more people
>on. More recently the French have changed this to follow the British way with
>roundabouts, namely those on it have priority over those entering. This is what
>the rule is really about, strictly it has nothing to do with left or right.
>


Oh what a shame. On my trips to France, I have always derived great enjoyment
from watching vast hoards of Renaults and Citroens cramming on on to
the roundabouts (hastened by whistle blowing gendarmes) to the point
where even though traffic is fairly light, the mess on the roundabout
is truly amazing.

>BTW - who was the doofus who took a good idea (the roundabout), and fucked it
>up royally (added the mini-roundabouts)? I remember when the HH roundabout was
>just an ordinary one, and it worked perfectly well.
>

Well I never had a problem with HH. The great advantage is that as you approach
the roundabout, and depending on your exit, you can pick left or right, whichever
is quicker. I could always find a way round which hardl;y required me to slow
down.

Jim Munro
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The Saint and Leslie Charteris
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:38:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Jul29.133831.16559
Organization: :noitazinagrO

On reading some of the Saint stories I was surprised to find
how unlike the dapper TV character he really was.  Not that
his adversaries didn't have it coming - the books abound with
gangsters and white slavers - but carving somebody's cheeks with
a knife is not something I can see Roger Bore or his successor 
doing.

For 64,000 dollars and a date with Vanna: what is the least known
and most surprising fact about Leslie Charteris?


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From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Meelor  riots
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 06:13:34 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

1) The David Mellor affair is sure stirring up some heat, but no as bad as the
   Profumo Affair.

2) Riots in Britain.  Shades of the Brixton incident.

My,my.  Ghosts are haunting the Tories like crazy.


Dave Shariff Yadallee
yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
God Save the Queen, God Bless us All!
yankee: (n) a person with long, yankable hair
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
Subject: Re: WANTED: how much does a bicycle cost in Cambridge, England?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:49:21 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
	<1992Jul21.102648.14894@hemlock.cray.com>
Originator: nickh@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1992Jul21.102648.14894@hemlock.cray.com> andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner) writes:

   One drawback is figuring out how to get it from Gatwick/Heathrow to
   Cambridge - that's an excercise left to the reader....

Trains. What's the problem. Train into London. Bike across London to
KX, train to Cambridge. OK, so you have to pick the _right_ train, and
cycling across central London isn't much fun, but this is still the
obvious way to do it.

If you have a lot of other luggage, take two trips.

Nick Haines nickh@cs.cmu.edu
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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.australian,soc.culture.new-zealand
Subject: Re: New banknotes
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:32:49 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


British banknotes now have a copyright notice printed on them.  This is due
to the activities or an American artist living in London who speciallised in
drawing pictures of banknotes using crayon.  They were often close to actual
size but in no way could be mistaken for the real thing - there was no
attempt to create forgeries.  The problems arose because he started to use
the drawings as currency.  After a meal he would offer to pay with real
money or with one of his drawings.  As the drawings were very good as art
more often than not they would be accepted.  Eventually this came to the
attention of the Bank of England who were not pleased and had him charged
with attempting to pass forged notes.  The trial was widely reported but
eventually the charges were dismissed as nobody could find anything of which
he was guilty.  


So now all British bank notes have an explicit copyright notice printed on
them. 


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UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Why only ONE british olympic team
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:01:38 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

>>>>> On 27 Jul 92 13:19:44 GMT, smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) said:

>> In article <Bs1ntL.25u@newcastle.ac.uk>, w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
>> Why is there only one British Olymipic team?
>> This is not a stupid question, as the UK/GB does not normally 
>> have a single team in cricket, football, rugby and probably various
>> other sports.
>> 
>>    Instead there are separate teams for England, Scotland, Wales and
>> Northern Ireland. 

> Its even more confusing than that. All four regions have their own soccer
> teams, as does the Republic of Ireland, but when it comes to Rugby there
> isn't a Northern Irish rugby team, there is a single Irish one which draws
> players from both sides of the border.

I can foresee a change to this in the future -- as far as football
goes anyway -- with the emerging countries of eastern Europe.
Particularly vulnerable is the Welsh team since the Welsh F.A. is
having trouble forming a credible national league. Unless they do so I
reckon UEFA and FIFA may (if looking to limit number of teams) decide
that Wales -- without a national league -- no longer merits
international status.

Does anyone know the current status regarding a national league of
Wales? The latest thing I heard was an attempt to "force" all Welsh
teams to play in some league -- I believe at present they have to ask
permission from the WFA to play in leagues ultimately under the
English FA.

The last manifestation of a national league was the Abacus Welsh
League which was essentially based in South Wales and couldn't get any
team further north than Aberystwyth to join. Barry Town (sorry that
should read "The Great Barry Town"), after winning the league umpteen
times since it started, left to rejoin the Southern (Beazer Homes)
League because none of these successes led to anything.  The Abacus
Welsh League failed to gain status as an entry point for European
Football (unlike the Welsh Cup).

Ceri
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From: harrity@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elan Morin Tedronai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Truth with a capital T
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:27:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.4769
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA


Way back when, _somebody_ wrote:

>>> You should indeed, because standard Anglican theology agrees
>>> entirely with the Roman Catholics about the foundation of the
>>> Church, and sees the Church of England as the English branch of
>>> the universal Catholic Church. It just disagrees about the
>>> little local difficulties in the sixteenth century (as "1066
>>> and All That" puts it, when the Roman Catholics broke away from
>>> the Anglican Church).

What? Look, I'm hardly a religious person, and I don't
profess to have any expertise in this area, but what's
this about the Catholic Church breaking away from
the Anglican?

I thought the schism occured at the behest of King Henry of
England, who wanted to have his marriage annulled, but the
Pope, ol' stick-in-the-mud that he was, wouldn't give it to
him, whereupon Henry proclaimed the existence of the Church
of England, of which the reigning Monarch (of course) was head.

How does this make the Catholic Church our to have broken
from the Anglican?  I mean, isn't it sort of just the
opposite? Just curious.

Daniel John Kelly-Harrity ---------| |--------- "Sooner spit in a 
Seattle University ----------------| |---------  Wolf's Eye,
Seattle, Washington ---------------| |---------  than cross an
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,rec.games.empire,alt.war
From: spk@uk.ac.aber (Stephen Kingston)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Working while in school, was Re: Pronounciaton of Three-Syllable Words
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:51:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Wales at Aberystwyth.

In Britain we still have the remnants of the grant system which saw me
through University. As a result of this there were few cases of people 
who *had* to work in order to get the money for higher education.

In fact, under the grant system, the working class were better off as 
they would often qualify for a full grant. Where parental income was 
higher it was expected that parents would top up the grants through 
the deed of covenant scheme (i.e. allowing recovery of income tax).

The hardship cases generally occurred where parents refused to pay the 
balance of the grant, thus it was more likely that the middle classes 
would work to get money for higher education.

Increasingly the U.K. government is moving over to a student loan 
system, and will no doubt see people being refused loans and thus 
refused higher education because banks believe the loan would involve 
to high a risk.

However, tuition fees always have been and (for the forseeable future)
will be paid for by the government. The grant is (was) for books, 
accomodation, food etc.

Stephen.
-- 
Gweleis i rac neb nym gweles pop annwyl. ef diwyl yneges. Gweleis i pasc.
(I saw the one above all men,  he saw me;  he, the beloved of his people,
who fulfills his mission. I saw Easter.) "Yspeil Taliesin" ---Taliesin---
spk@uk.ac.aber --- spk%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk --- Stephen Kingston
From: martin@specialix.co.uk (Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Derogatory fanny pack
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:24:03 GMT
Organization: Specialix International, London

jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick) writes:

>that fanny has different meanings in the two cultures, and could work
>out the intended meaning from context (ie "fanny pack" makes very
>little sense from the British-slang standpoint). 

Unless "fanny pack" is interpreted as a verb?

-- 
Martin Pitwood - martin@specialix.co.uk or martin@specialix.com
From: martin.baines@uk.sun.com (Martin Baines - Sun UK - SE Manager Cambridge)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Mellor: The establishment will again r
Date: 28 Jul 1992 12:16:23 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Ltd
Distribution: world
Reply-To: martin.baines@uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: bottomdog.uk.sun.com

[thread deleted]

I am pleased to see that life on this newsgroup is returning to
normal:

Lefties:  If only you had listened to us none of this would have
          happened.
Righties: If they had won it would have been much worse. But you
          didn't win so tough luck old boy.
Middlies: You're both wrong: we would have won if only people had
          voted for us.

Didn't the vote for talk.politics.british just pass? How about
moving the politics over there? Then we can resume important
discussions about the rule of cricket, marmite and what the
constitutional position of Rockall is.

Martin

P.S. I know the semi-mythical one move win in Mornington Cresent
and will reveal it to anyone sending a cheque for 100 pounds
to the address below.


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