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Crocodile Tears

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From: Bangers 'n' Mash
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00
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SHERIDAN HOUGHTEN  <sheri@abacus.concordia.ca> wrote:
>My Mum told
>me this morning that a Japanese-Canadian she works with has been
>receiving many apologies from fellow (French-Canadian) workers for what
>Parizeau said!

Yes, it's crucial to seem sensitive right now, or they'll never get that 
ethnic vote at all. Given the same speech in context of a oui victory 
rather than a defeat, I wonder if there would have been such apologies. I 
wonder if, instead, there might have been smug gloating.

>And finally, perhaps Parizeau might stop hitting the bottle so hard
>right before speeches...

I suspect the bottle was labeled Power rather than Pernod.

B 'n' M
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From: cp_dine@alcor.concordia.ca (Bangers 'n' Mash)
Subject: Crocodile Tears
Date: 1995/10/31
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summary: Never smile at a crocodile
organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
keywords: Ethnic cleansing, hypocrisy, all apologies
newsgroups: concordia.general
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