I've seen the 22 minutes tape. It's pretty funny, if a bit hard to swallow
for someone who lives in Lexington and Concord country. Of course, you guys
also have Bob & Doug to answer for. :-)
Cheers,
John Rosevear
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Evans [mailto:brian@uunet.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: John Rosevear; vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Lecture from Uncle Don
>
>
> NOT!
>
> Canadians are just as jingoistically, pig-headedly,
> irrationally proud of
> being Canadian as Americans are proud of being American. At least I
> am :) Anyone who calls me American 'cause I live in (the
> best part of)
> North America has a double big "Hmph" coming.
>
> I could bring up the classic "22 Minutes" Talking to
> Americans bits here,
> but I won't cause if you're American you won't have seen
> them. Truly funny,
> though.
>
> Man, the off-season is getting long...
>
> Brian
>
>
> At 04:01 PM 3/1/01 -0500, John Rosevear wrote:
> ><thickheaded nationalistic rant>
> >
> >Yeah, Canadians are "Americans" until they're somewhere in
> Europe or the
> >Middle East and trouble starts brewing... then all of a
> sudden they're
> >"Canadians, NOT Americans" to anyone who will listen. Hmph.
> >
> ></thickheaded nationalistic rant>
> >
> >Regards,
> >John Rosevear
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: the rosens [mailto:mikerosen@home.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:15 PM
> > > To: Michael Gee
> > > Cc: Derek Harling; vintage-race@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Re: Lecture from Uncle Don
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Gee wrote:
> > >
> > > > Derek,
> > > > According to a US court decision over a decade ago the term
> > > "American" also
> > > > applies to Canadians. Is this the first step in
> Manifest Destiny?
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > >
> > > I had an experience when going from the states into Canada
> > > Buffalo - when asked
> > > my nationality (I'm a US citizen "landed" in Canada) I said
> > > American instead of
> > > US. The Canadian Customs butthead of the day said " we're all
> > > Americans...where were you born".
> > > Manifest my ass, they're just trouble makers.
> > >
> > > Mike (born in the USA) Rosen
>
> Brian Evans
> Director, Canada
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