- 1. Insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 15:43:14 PST
- Corey replied: I'd be happy to have all 'Muricans called Yanks because "American" actually means everyone on the American continents, north and south. But some southerners would probably object becau
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00506.html (9,481 bytes)
- 2. RE: Insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: "Lou Nevins" <lou_nevins@macgate.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 16:24:30 U
- Don'dt get this confused with "being in the lime light". This was a term applied to stage actors who had a special light placed on their performance. The person who invented the special lightto do th
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00509.html (10,057 bytes)
- 3. Re: Insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: "U. Goettsch" <ulix@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 17:07:16 -0800 (PST)
- "Amis" in Germany. This can be a little misleading, since it means "friends" in french :-) Ulix (A pissed-off German is a Sauerkraut!) __/__,__ ________/____,,_______ ................... (_o____o_) .
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00511.html (7,151 bytes)
- 4. Re: Insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: macleodm@cadvision.com (Michael MacLeod)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:54:24 -0700
- A Kiwi friend of mine once proclaimed that he was 18 before he realized that pobbey and bastard were two different words. He also claimed that I once took them 4 hours to wheel the stairs up to a Br
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00512.html (7,394 bytes)
- 5. Re: Insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: palte@rt.el.utwente.nl (Bert Palte)
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 09:05:43 GMT
- Be prepared for this: NOT being called an American can ALSO be an insult! I got almost into a fight one night in Buenos Aires (South America) sitting on one of the many squares in that city during a
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00549.html (8,219 bytes)
- 6. Re: insulting everyone (score: 1)
- Author: "Ernest E. Gilbert" <lawref@lawref.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:49:56 -0800
- And another word to the wise, when you're in Hawaii its "back on the mainland," not back in the states. Ernest 'too much time between ports' Gilbert barrister@lawref.com
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00596.html (6,769 bytes)
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