From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 12:21:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA19510 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19485 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03927; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:24:16 +0300 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:24:16 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Tony Kimball cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: America the Beautiful In-Reply-To: <199604031659.KAA28168@compound> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > > > Canada is in America as much as Switzerland or France is in Germay. > > *Brazil* is in America. > > Canada is in America as much as Poland is in Europe. Poland is not > a part of the European Union, but is firmly situated on its the > Continet of Europe. Poland actually lies to the west of the "center point of Europe". > > If you disagree, it is only because we speak different dialects of > English. Similarly, the Mexican reference to US denizens as > 'Norte Americanos' is silly, in a naive translation to Network > English, the dialect of most English-speaking readers of this missive. > > The more interesting question to me personally is how long *Minnesota* > will remain a part of the Union. (Not long I hope. Better a dead > lion than a dead jackal -- or slave, eh? I hope for a new union with > Dakota, Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, > in my lifetime.) > > (Apposite redirections applied. Through the Dragus Ex Machina of BCC;-) > > Oh, and ob FBSD: Might Walnut Creek seceed? Then FBSD could issue its > own money, send ambassadors to Finland. Hey, why not issue FBSD ecash > before that? > Grrr.... They might at least once do the embassy thing the right way - make the embassy for the Nordic countries in Estonia (not vice versa). The difference of costs will soon pay the cost of establishing say a 128K line to there. :) Sander Eat good food, preserve nature, be nice to all nice people :)