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Re: Spectacular Bookshelf Performance

#245
From: Ian
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 07:11
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C'mon you guys, this is not supposed to be a racialist ng!!
"Steve Batt" <sbatt@largeishpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Peter Sammon" <camman722@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:102drao1dm35od0@news.supernews.com...
> > Kurt Hamster <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:ca2dnbmmA7NOdrvdRVn-
> > hg@giganews.com:
> >
> > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 01:49:01 -0000, Peter Sammon used
> > > <102dpodn6hnba68@news.supernews.com> to say...
> > >
> > >>Kurt Hamster <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:ca2dnYKmA7NXeLvdRVn-
> > >>hg@giganews.com:
> > >>
> > >>> On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:39:17 -0000, Peter Sammon used
> > >>> <102dlllo6km007a@news.supernews.com> to say...
> > >>>
> > >>>>Kurt Hamster <me@privacy.net> wrote in
> > >>>>news:rrednREzA_RUULvdRVn-sA@giganews.com:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:50:12 -0000, Peter Sammon used
> > >>>>> <102df9480ecdf8a@news.supernews.com> to say...
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>dave weil <dweil2@bellsouth.net> wrote in
> > >>>>>>news:4r9d20dqvelnto24ponf24lc1pp7ubrqm7@4ax.com:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:53:50 -0000, Peter Sammon
> > >>>>>>> <camman722@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>In addition to their renown in the areas of dentistry, martian
> > >>>>>>>>lander technology and national health care, the Brits are well
> > >>known
> > >>>>>>>>for their firm grasp of reality.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Got any American made O-rings or heat tiles on you?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>No. They were sold to Britain to build this:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>http://www.beagle2.com/index.htm
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> And you lot were fucking dumb enough to buy it off us. LMAO
> > >>>>
> > >>>>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=charity
> > >>>>
> > >>>>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pity
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>;-))
> > >>>
> > >>> Which only goes to show how fucking dumb you lot are then.
> > >>
> > >>Love ya' Kurty! ;-)
> > >>
> > >>Exerpt from
> > >>
> > >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1113870,00.html:
> > >>
> > >>With the failure of the Beagle 2, one might argue, normal service has
> > >>been resumed. Britain is back where it likes to be, failing and
> > >>meticulously analysing that failure. Whole British industries are
> > >>devoted to this analysis. One of the great postwar British industries
> > >>is the sitcom, and that industry's greatest products are failures.
> > >>Basil Fawlty, Del Boy Trotter, Harold (and possibly Albert) Steptoe,
> > >>Rab C Nesbitt, Frank Spencer, the characters of Dad's Army and Are You
> > >>Being Served, David Brent and Alan Partridge are all ground-down
> > >>anti-heroes whose role is to remind the British, reassuringly, of
> > >>themselves, to confirm what we all know - that we suffer from a
> > >>British Leyland of the soul.
> > >>
> > >>"A British Leyland of the soul". Priceless.
> > >>
> > >>;-))
> > >
> > >
> > > As opposed to the US car industry eh? Now there's a growth industry if
> > I
> > > ever heard of one... ;)
> > >
> > > Then there's the tobacco companies...
> > >
> > > The UK has always been known for it's originality and ideas. It's
never
> > > been best known as a manufacturer.
> > >
> > > Now Fortress America tends to buy in its talent and/or steal it. It
> > > always has done.
> > >
> > > The US has to be good as something but I'm fucked if I can think what
> > it
> > > is. Errrmmmm, still thinking, ahhh Blues music, but beyond that, nope
> > > can't think of much we have to be grateful to them for.
> >
> > Seinfeld.
> Sienfeld is shit.
>
>
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From: "Ian" <ijrobby@bigpond.net.au>
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