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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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