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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:42:03 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        Iain Templeton <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...)
Message-ID:  <19980617104203.58315@papillon.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:08:13PM %2B1000
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617160740.6279B-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> <199806170712.RAA10821@cimlogic.com.au> <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au>

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On Wed, 17 June 1998 at 18:08:13 +1000, 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.

OK, for the sake of us expatriates, how did the election go?  Are they
moving the Queensland parliament to a fish and chip shop?

Greg
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