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Article #1834Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
From: Mark Fulk
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:03
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:03
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In article <2937207291.3.p00168@psilink.com> "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com> writes: >I would like to make a passing observation about Texas. My whole family >is from Texas. All my grandfathers/grandfathers/uncles/aunts, etc., are >from Texas and live there now. I have lived in Texas. Do not mistake >Texas with the United States. Legally, it is one of the states, but >when one is in Texas, one is in a whole 'nother country, as they say. Molly Ivins's hero, a late 19th century reporter, once said that the only trouble with Texas Baptists was that the preacher didn't keep them under the water long enough. >Living in central New York gives one a perspective on rudeness. Not for >nothing is New Yorker the international synonym for asshole. One has to >go to the City for the full treatment, but it's amazing the level of >interpersonal verbal abuse that transpires without fisticuffs. Here speaks a man who has not spent much time in Paris. -- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.econ,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!fulk From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books) Message-ID: <1993Jan27.180307.9591@cs.rochester.edu> Organization: University of Rochester References: <2937207291.3.p00168@psilink.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:03:07 GMT Lines: 20