Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:27:22 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, higginsj@iname.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jonny@jonny.eng.br, lcremean@tidalwave.net Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) Message-ID: <980617182722.ZM13073@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...)" (Jun 17, 10:39am) References: <199806170441.OAA10417@cimlogic.com.au> <jb@cimlogic.com.au> <980617052543.ZM11629@darkstar.connect.com> <19980617103930.47696@papillon.lemis.com>
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On Jun 17, 10:39am, Greg Lehey wrote: > Subject: Re: US Immigration (was: Funny, but true...) > On Wed, 17 June 1998 at 5:25:43 +0000, Frank Pawlak wrote: > > You have a wonderful sense of humor. I enjoyed your message, and was relieved > > to hear that the invasion will not take place on July 4th. That day is a > > holiday here you know, and I just hate it when a holiday is disrupted by a > > national call to arms. On that day we celebrate the time when the early > > settlers here threw the British tea into the ocean or something like > > that. > > It was my understanding that the British were the last people to try > to spoil your 4th July celebrations, and that's why you treated them > so rudely. Maybe that's the real background of the reception we all > get from the INS. > You may have hit upon the reason that the INS is so nasty. The INS is just going round ensuring that we can celebrate our holidays without spoilers getting into the act. Seems to me that we Yanks have a reputation of treating the British a bit rudely. Something in the year 1812 comes to mind also. We Yanks appear to be a rather feisty lot all the way around. Frank > 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 >-- End of excerpt from Greg Lehey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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