From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 17 08:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13848 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (rider.dunham.org [207.170.123.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13837 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id KAA00510; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:42:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980617104203.58315@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:42:03 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake , John Birrell Cc: Iain Templeton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) References: <199806170712.RAA10821@cimlogic.com.au> <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980617180813.64169@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:08:13PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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