Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:36:41 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) Message-ID: <199806171036.UAA10953@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:08:13 %2B1000" References: <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 17th June 1998, Sue Blake wrote: >On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:12:59PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: >> Iain Templeton wrote: >> > Or we could just give guns to all the people who voted for One Nation on >> > Saturday, and tell them that the American Wheat subsidies are killing the >> > country.[Iain runs and hides] >> >> I thought that a One Nation government would _give_ out guns with their >> low interest loans for all the ordinary people. The problem we'll >> have is pointing out to them which ones are americans, though. We might >> have to paint all americans red just in case all those One Nation supporters >> aren't bright enough to differentiate. Now _I_ better run and hide... not >> under the bed because they're looking there. After all, that's where all >> the foreigners are, isn't it? >> >> [ Do I hear someone point out that I'm not aboriginal, so that makes me >> technically a foreigners too? ] > >Believe me, in Queensland you're safer as a foreigner. Paint your hair >red and look dumb and confused whenever numbers are mentioned, and leave >out a syllable or two when you say Australia. Spell it how you say it for >good measure. You might be accepted as a supporter. Then you'll only have >to worry about the 75% who didn't vote for her. Wow! Queensland politics makes it to the Hallowed Halls of freebsd-chat! What a night, election night, as I watched the reactions of a bunch of political analysts and politicians as the early counts came in. Their initial "there is a camera in front of me and I have to be jolly" enthusiasm draining away and that sort of stunned animal caught in the headlights expression settling in on their faces. After a while they took a perverse glee in pointing to their traditional opposition counterparts and claiming "at least you can't take any comfort from this result". Too bloody right. At the time I was imagining all our trading partners reading the newspaper the next day over their morning noodles (for shock of shocks, we do trade with a lot of asians), and if they managed to speak while choking on their breakfast, calling their offices and saying "Those Queenslanders! They're a bunch of maniacs! Stop sending stuff there right now!" Todays headlines are about trading partners and investors cancelling orders and projects. Funny old world. Who'd have thought... Stephen. ObComputer: the tallies were/are available on the web at www.qld.gov.au and updated semi-real-time. Amusingly my Netscape 4.04 screwed up the tables unless I set the font encoding to utf-8. I invite you to check for yourself whether http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/ecq/summary/summary51.html has a clear or a garbled "Percentage Graph". Have I mentioned that it's a funny old world? Disclaimer: My employer has no opinion on this matter, but I do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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