At 6:27 AM -0600 11/16/99, Jack W Drews wrote:
>I know nothing of this controversy -- but I find it wonderful that in today's
>rather crass world there are still those who can turn a fine phrase and cast a
>gentlemanly insult. These are talents of which we Yanks are a little shy. We
>probably would have called him a "dirty rotten lying sumbag of a weasel" or
>something like that.
I'll agree with that. When it comes to English, no one does it better than
the English. Well said, Paul!
Phil Barnes (peb3@cornell.edu)
Cortland, NY (nowhere near New York City)
'71 TR6 CC61193L (22 year owner)
Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
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