Re: Australia cf. USA

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Sun Dec 20 1998 - 14:49:49 MST


dwayne wrote:

> Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> > > Really? Australian PR represents us as prisoners? Or is it just the legendary
> > > ignorance of Americans about anything not American?
> >
> > I'm hardly the typical ignorant American.
>
> So you're an atypical ignorant american? :-)

No, just that the text book description of the founding and settling of Australia
basically states that it was settled by British prisoners shipped there. In this,
Australia is little different from the State of Georgia here.

>
> > > > Then again, to an American, being
> > > > a subject of anybody is almost as bad as being a prisoner....
> > >
> > > What a fatuous statement.
> >
> > I'm not fat, I'm big boned. now get in the kitchen and make me some chicken pot pie!
>
> Awk! Where do I buy chicken pots?
>

Ah, sorry, you don't get South Park down there, do you?



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