🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:03:55 -0700, Maddi Hausmann Sojourner
<madhaus@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

>Dave Simpson wrote:
>> Mr. Potter wrote:
>
>> >>When I was a teenager my family went on a trip out west through
>> >>Texas, Oklahoma, California, Oregon, Idaho, Alberta, Colorado,
>> >>etc.  We were in a brand new pink Cadillac and put a confederate
>> >>flag on the radio antenna.  Lots of people blew their horns and
>> >>hollered, "Save your confederate money boys!  The South will rise
>> >>again!"  We all thought it was funny. :-)
>> 
>> >Good grief!  Are you for "real"?
>> 
>> He is, and so were those people.  Now if you want to be honest,
>> why don't you ask yourself that question; your reaction was unreal.
>> 
>> Are you still fighting the Civil War and seeing Rebs and stereotypical
>> cartoon characters behind every tree, and hating everyone south of
>> where you live, no matter what their actual heritage?  My God...
>> 
>> Perhaps you're just jealous that all your buddies have moved to
>> Atlanta or Phoenix and you're left alone with your snow shovel?
>
>What snow shovel?  I think the last time we had a snow accumulation
>here in the flats of Santa Clara Valley was in 1961.  But I could be
>mistaken, it might have been 1941.  Of course there was that time
>there was the hard freeze in 1982 and all those citrus trees died.
>Oh wait, you live in Atlanta; too cold for citrus, right?  No
>ocean, high humidity, racial tensions, a history of slavery, and 
>people like you who enjoy sweeping generalizations... why on earth 
>would I be jealous?  Oh, and my buddies don't want to move to
>Atlanta or Phoenix; in fact several of them escaped from the latter.
>Too hot, plus they have Ted.  Guess Atlanta has you.

Actually, Mr. Potter, the man with the snow shovel, is from
*Chicago*.

HTH
HAND
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