Alan S

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:49:34 -0600, Tom Johnstone
<[email protected]> wrote:

    |>
    |> I DID NOT re-elect Bush and most of the people in my community didn't
    |> either. The atmosphere here locally is decidedly anti-Bush. I'll admit
    |> there are a LOT of crass, ignorant Americans but not all of us are like
    |> that.
    |
    |Yep - have to agree with that. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, and here
    |about 80% of the population voted against Bush. The people in Madison
    |are largely well-educated and fairly well informed.


People are the same around the world. Nice or nasty, educated or
ignorant, honest or devious. But the proportions can vary.

Considering how nobody claims to have voted for Bush, it's amazing how
he got elected.

Years ago I drove cabs in Melbourne on the night shift. In the wee
small hours I effectively "lived off earnings" as I either drove the
customers to and from the brothels or drove the girls home from them.
I think the biggest was the "Daily Planet" (one of the girls told me
they named it that because they made the customers feel like
Superman:-)

Those brothels seemed to have exceedingly complex accounting systems.
Very few of the girls admitted to working as prostitutes; they all
claimed to be doing the accounts.

Some voters seem to have the same difficulty with awkward truths.

Cheers, Alan

Poss

Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of Alan S
<[email protected]> :

    >On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:29:24 +0800, Poss <> wrote:
    >|Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of Ralph Holz
    >|<[email protected]> :
    >|
    >|>> When my wife (Australian) first got a job in the US, she was asked by
    >|>> one of her co-workers “Did you have to learn English to come over
    >|>> here?â€? Unfreakin’ believable!!
    >|>
    >|>Reminds me.
    >|>
    >|>During a stay at a language school in Firenze, Italy. My Aussie friend
    >|>was chatting to a US-American girl:
    >|>
    >|>US girl: "So where are you from?"
    >|>She: "Australia."
    >|>USG: "Oh, so you must speak German."
    >|>She: "No, I said Aus-tra-lia."
    >|>USG: "Yes, so you must speak German."
    >|>
    >|>It's an incident I still remember.
    >|>
    >|>R
    >|
    >|A friend, while Everquesting, was asked if we had computers in
    >|Australia.
    >OK, I waited and nobody answered the question.
    >Do we?
    >Duh :-))


Dunno. Oi've got this telly thing in front of me, but.