Re: Mutant Message (was Re: Re Look out! long hair gun loon!)

Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:38:54 -0500

Damien Broderick wrote:
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> At 07:23 PM 12/19/97 -0500, ML wrote:
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> >Australian abos I am not as familiar with
>
> <PC MODE ON>
>
> This is not the happiest turn of phrase, although Michael can't be expected
> to know this. In Oz, it conveys roughly the subtext that US citizens would
> get from: `American niggers I am not as familiar with...'
>
> Damien Broderick

Sorry, I was not aware of this. If any aborigine or excessively
empatheic people were insulted, my apologies. However, as a Native
American freind of mine once told me,"I don't care what you call me,
just don't call me late for dinner."

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