Re: " Roman Nottingham " [WAS: Nose shit?]

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From: J Alfred Prufrock
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 05:34

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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:35:55 +0000, Dr Robin Bignall
<docrobin@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:08:21 -0500, R F <rfontana@alumni.wesleyan.edu>
>wrote:

>> (However, the people
>>of Chicago look very different, on the whole, from the people of New York
>>-- half the people you see in Chicago look like they just walked off of a
>>farm (NTTAWWF).)
>>
>>Well, so Stamford's sort of like that too, except for the farm thing.
>>
>Wow! Everywhere I've been in the States, the people looked pretty normal to
>me, but were in general much friendlier than in London or Paris. Even in
>Redneck bars in Texas. Maybe the British accent helps, plus the fact that
>if I'm standing next to people for a while, I usually talk to them.

If you can get close enough. Houston, in particular, can boast of
having the fattest people in the United States, surely making them the
fattest people in the world, if you don't count sumo wrestlers. As for
backward rednecks, the rednecks found in Bush's boastful state are not
the very worst in the country. You'd probably have to go to Alabama,
Georgia, or Mississippi to find the best examples.
-- 
Alfred

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