Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:22:39PM -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Bob Thornton wrote:
> > TW wrote:
> > > Yeah.  It's rather naive to claim no violence will
> > > be involved. Such claims are usually based on a rather
> > > idealistic view of human (or at least in this case Quebecois)
> > > nature.   I must say that I was surprised to find that
> > > Quebecois could out-Texan Texans in braggadocio, but it
> > > seems to have occurred.
> >
> > Yeah, well, us Texans have ten times more... er...
> > desert! AW YEA. We've got more desert than those
> > shivering peoples up there!
>
> You know I'm a Texan, right?  They say that sometimes the difference
> between a Jewish joke and an antisemitic joke is who's telling it...
Sounds like Bob's a Texan too, Thomas, so who exactly is in danger of
offending you here?  I'm confused.

-Marcos h



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