From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 19:52:35 MDT
> So can anyone explain why is it that Americans (and the
> English) get extreme about silly and unimportant things,
> while Europeans save their going nuts for profound and
> serious matters?
>
> Lee Corbin
Bzzzt, "facts not in evidence". Do you consider the recent hooliganism in Sweden emblematic? How about what happened at
Kent State in 1970? Was the American War for Independence extremism about silliness, or profound?
I've heard it said that a King of France once ordered that the tips of all edged tools (knives, swords, etc.) be bated.
This is reputed to be the reason behind the modern butter knife. Didn't last as a general law.
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