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Re: Michael Forsyth, Prince of Darkness (was Re: Return of the Stone)

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From: Sandy
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00
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Micheil Rob Mac Ph=E0druig wrote:
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> Sandy <gaya@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
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> >Micheil Rob Mac Ph=3DE0druig wrote:
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> >> You might also like to know that in view of your good humour in the
> >> face of my xenophobic blasts, I am seriously considering transferring
> >> my ethnic prejudices to the French in order to give you a break...
> >> =3D
> =

> >> M=3DECcheil Rob MacPh=3DE0druig
> >> Dr=3DF9idh:duine-uasal
> =

> >Careful Micheil, the earth may slip on its axis.
> =

> >Sandy
> =

> No, I've been giving the French role in Scottish history some serious
> thought and it has been one of promises unfulfilled in time of need.
> The Stuarts in particular were constantly let down by the French whose
> promises of vast armies to the rescue invariably became odd ships
> hovering round the coast to take away yet another aspirant who had
> fallen into the trap of believing Gallic promises. And I wonder how
> many brogachan (Highland lads) drew in a shuddering breath of horror
> as another French-supplied Exocet swooshed past (or in the case of HMS
> Sheffield, struck) during the Falklands War.
> =

> No, whether supplying Exocets to Argentina or nuclear assistance to
> Iraq; collaborating with the Nazis or torturing people I've met in
> North Africa, I think it's time we got on the French case. We could
> start by giving The Auld Alliance its real name - The Auld A'Lyin'.
> =

> In all honesty, this being a bigot is a very difficult position to
> maintain as I have so many French and English friends who keep getting
> in the way of my pure and crystalline hatred. I don't suppose tax
> collectors or politicians are ethnic groups are they? I mean, there
> MUST be somebody I can latch onto!
> =

> M=ECcheil Rob MacPh=E0druig
> Dr=F9idh:duine-uasal

Why don't we make up a ethnic group? Say perhaps the Taxipols.

Sandy
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From: Sandy <gaya@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Michael Forsyth, Prince of Darkness (was Re: Return of the Stone)
Date: 1997/02/05
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