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Re: Geographically challenged cross posting - was HEB Trying To Phase Out Purina's Tidy Cat Litter

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From: KLR
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:39
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On 8 Dec 2004 02:56:57 GMT, jamie@spam-me-silly.net (jamie) wrote:

>Shane Baker <shane@sbaker.id.au> wrote:
>> On 4 Dec 2004 08:33:25 -0800, freespeechstore@aol.com
>> (Freespeechstore) wrote:
>> 
>>>"CONSUMER.WATCH" at http://freespeechstore.com posts that South Texas'
>>>largest grocery chain, HEB,  forces their inferior brands on
>>>consumers..
>> 
>> FWIW, aus.pets = AUSTRALIAN.pets
>> 
>> To put it another way, "aus" has nothing to do with Texas or Austin -
>> and the USA still isn't the centre of the universe.
>
>We get misplaced Australian posts in the austin.* newsgroups, too.
>Apparently there are plenty of folks in Oz who think "austin" stands
>for "in Australia".


>and I thought it was a once popular brand of pommy made car.
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Subject: Re: Geographically challenged cross posting - was HEB Trying To Phase Out Purina's Tidy Cat Litter
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