Re: Let Me Introduce Myself
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 31, 2004, 21:25 |
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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...
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Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally,
Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right
University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of
1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter.
Chicago, IL 60637
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