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Article #618Re: Ending Life in Virginia's Fastest Lanes
From: sanjian
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:52
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:52
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<kencorn@shangrila.net> wrote in message news:3A8C0741.AA711662@bellatlantic.net... > My wife and I passed through Greece a few years ago as tourists. The people I > met were mostly cordial except at the National Museum. There we tried to > purchase some knick knacks and the clerks refused us service rather snottily. > We never did figure that one out. Were we intruding upon some bureaucratic > lunch hour, or had no one told those people what they were there for? I > suppose I'll never know. The Greeks simply don't like Americans in general. There is no law there prohibiting discrimination, so they are allowed to refuse service. Kind of like the signs a century ago "no dogs or Irishmen". -- sanjian@wido(you know the drill)maker.com http://www.widomaker.com/~sanjian President P.A.C. Order of the Mallet ---------------------------------------------------------- Smile -- Ruka Rythem -- Corvette Dignaty -- Extra Guts -- Layla Tomadachi -- Parapu Kokoro -- Shion Believe in yourself -- Yuri
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,56dbe4764eb15d3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,56dbe4764eb15d3d X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 10a587,56dbe4764eb15d3d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a587,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,56dbe4764eb15d3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,56dbe4764eb15d3d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-15 18:48:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "sanjian" <sanjian@widomaker.com> Newsgroups: va.general,dc.driving,alt.appalachian,dc.general,rec.autos.driving Subject: Re: Ending Life in Virginia's Fastest Lanes Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:52:13 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <t8p56coasdkr23@corp.supernews.com> Reply-To: "sanjian" <spamfilter@readthesig.com> References: <3A868BB7.F3EEE25B@ix.netcom.com> <9664el$qhv$1@perki.connect.com.au> <t8dq4iinnkugf3@corp.supernews.com> <9678ii$kih$1@perki.connect.com.au> <t8eeteo83tpv47@corp.supernews.com> <967q8i$6sl$1@perki.connect.com.au> <t8jksjh6spu82a@corp.supernews.com> <96evkv$88u$1@perki.connect.com.au> <t8mml7b7met68a@corp.supernews.com> <96fvqg$7jl$1@perki.connect.com.au> <3A8C0741.AA711662@bellatlantic.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 33