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SUPER Rant WAY OT: You Americans...



This is hilarious because of its clarity.  This explains exactly why so many of us derive pleasure from burying ourselves in our garages and ignoring the rest of humanity for the weekends.  It must really suck for those who take life seriously.  Hang in there Cathy.  You just described so many of us on either side of the border.  No wonder we all hang out together in this e-place.



BH









 --- On Thu 12/21, C Boyko < roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca > wrote:

From: C Boyko [mailto: roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]

To: patrick.bureau@gmail.com

     Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:04:57 -0500

Subject: Re: SUPER Rant WAY OT: You Americans...



I'm just too tired for this, in the midst of the whole holiday vs Christmas<br>and what traditional symbols are or are not allowed, and the extra time and<br>effort required to prepare the household piled on top of work. And work,<br>yeah, I don't really even work anyway according to the general public<br>(underworked and overpaid, like all teachers). And let's not discuss the<br>inlaws at Christmas. They're Ukranian-Canadian, or whatever. My big fat<br>Ukranian Christmas argument.<br><br>And I'm not sure if I can wave the "flag with the maple leaf and the two<br>red stripes" because it might be misconstrued as support for the non-native<br>side of the local land dispute, "the flag formerly referred to as American<br>but shall now be called the stars and stripes for clarity" is permissable<br>and perfectly safe to display on both sides of that issue though. And don't<br>even get going on nations, we have so many nations within nations that I<br>can't keep track, is it Quebec 
or only francophones in the latest<br>incarnation? And what of members of the Mohawk nation who speak French and<br>live in Quebec? Nation within a nation within a nation in America I suppose.<br><br>And how am I to take "Cathyland"? I can't help but feel that it's a huge<br>jab. Should I just leave the list because I'm too vocal/don't fit the<br>demographic/don't "feel" American even though the United States of<br>Americans think I am one? I'm North American, no disputing that, though<br>locally I'm considered a European, true North Americans have status cards.<br><br>All I know is that I have a pile of baking to do, which means I can't work<br>on my cars. Kids are insane to deal with at this time of the year, the new<br>year will hold even more fun with text messaging and iPods and all sorts of<br>other distractions from learning, and I'll be facing yet more arguments.<br><br>Find me a nice cave, and I'll just crawl into it and not worry about being<br>American or Canadian 
or both or neither. BTW the Maple Leaf tattoed on my<br>foot is staying. I'll take it into the cave with me.<br><br>Oh,    :)<br><br>Cathy<br><br><br><br>On 5:19 pm 12/21/06 "Patrick Bureau" <patrick.bureau@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> Eh, I am Kana'tian (Kana'ta is the original word meaning village)<br>><br>> I Patrick, born from immigrant french in canada, now living in Texas<br>> in fear of never seeing snow ever again, but remains happy riding his<br>> motorcycle  over 300 days in the year ...<br>><br>> Ok back to your regularly scheduled debate..<br>><br>><br>> On 12/21/06, Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >  OK, I'll jump into the fire on this one.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >  I personally find it a little short-sighted when anyone uses the<br>> term "American" to try and label someone as being from the United<br>> States.  This was kinda drilled into me when I started travelling to<br>> Central America and South America.  If you go --<br>><br>>  {OMG THAT 
WAS A HUMOUGOUS SNIP}<br>> ____<br>> Patrick Bureau,<br>> 85 VW Scirocco, 01 Jeep Cherokee, 05 Honda Reflex Sport<br>> WTB - DFW, GS500F, NINJA 500R, HONDA VBF500 : http://tinyurl.com/ujc2h<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Scirocco-l mailing list<br>> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing list<br>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>

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