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Old Oct 28th 2004, 10:31 pm
  #136  
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On 29 Oct 2004 10:06:02 GMT, [email protected] (ARKADYA) wrote:

    >> Guess what, nobody has won a colonial war in the last 200 years
    >China in tibet. Indonesia in all of its eastern Islands.

    >US in Guam

Well bully for you!

    > and Puerto
    >Rico.

is that the full list of US successes as a colonial power?

    >Britain in the Falklands

no.

    >. Russia in Chechnya.

no


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Old Oct 28th 2004, 10:32 pm
  #137  
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:21:36 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On 26 Oct 2004 10:23:40 GMT, ARKADYA wrote:
    >>>You got that bassackwards. Kerry's base support comes from naive urban
    >>>"Yanks"
    >>>of the northeast because socialists infest the states there.
    >>
    >> Not everyone here. Im from the Northeast and Im voting for BUSH. Jersey is
    >I didn't know the Channel Islands could vote in teh US elections.

He didn't mention Jersey's crushing defeat of the colonial power
either. :-)
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Old Oct 28th 2004, 10:33 pm
  #138  
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:22:23 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On 26 Oct 2004 10:23:40 GMT, ARKADYA wrote:
    >> Not everyone here. Im from the Northeast and Im voting for BUSH. Jersey is
    >> split right down the middle.
    >Oops. My last post should have had the above as the qouted text.

your speeling chekker is going off at half cock today :-)
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Old Oct 28th 2004, 10:35 pm
  #139  
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On 29 Oct 2004 10:06:02 GMT, ARKADYA wrote:

    > Britain in the Falklands.
The Argentineans failed in their colonial attempt for the Falklands.

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Old Oct 28th 2004, 10:49 pm
  #140  
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:33:10 +0200, [email protected] wrote:

    > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:22:23 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>On 26 Oct 2004 10:23:40 GMT, ARKADYA wrote:
    >>> Not everyone here. Im from the Northeast and Im voting for BUSH. Jersey is
    >>> split right down the middle.
    >>Oops. My last post should have had the above as the qouted text.
    >
    > your speeling chekker is going off at half cock today :-)

It should have spotted that one, bloody smelling pisstakes.

At least it's not a spell checker, although it is getting close to
Halloween.

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Old Oct 29th 2004, 1:41 am
  #141  
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[email protected] wrote:

    > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:21:36 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:

    >>On 26 Oct 2004 10:23:40 GMT, ARKADYA wrote:

    >>>>You got that bassackwards. Kerry's base support comes from naive urban
    >>>>"Yanks"
    >>>>of the northeast because socialists infest the states there.

    >>>Not everyone here. Im from the Northeast and Im voting for BUSH. Jersey is

    >>I didn't know the Channel Islands could vote in teh US elections.

    > He didn't mention Jersey's crushing defeat of the colonial power
    > either. :-)

I'm missing the news. Has NY tried invasion?
 
Old Oct 29th 2004, 1:44 am
  #142  
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[email protected] wrote:

    > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:18:05 +0200, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:

    >>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:27:10 +0200, [email protected] wrote:

    >>>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:47:57 +0200, Tim Challenger
    >>><[email protected]> wrote:

    >>>>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:00:16 GMT, devil wrote:

    >>>>>Guess what, nobody has won a colonial war in the last 200 years.

    >>>>Brush up on your history pal.
    >>>>...
    >>>>France takes Algeria 1843

    >>>France lost Algeria in 1962

    >>True, but it was a win in 1843. The comment wasn't "no colonial wars were
    >>won in the last 200 years that were't lost later".

    >>>>First Sikh War (1845-46)

    >>>Britain's last colony on the Indian subcontinent or what?

    >>We were trying to colonise India at the time, I suppose.

    > Every colonisation started with a win, but in the long term almost
    > every one ended in a defeat.

    > Isn't it time to throw the Normans out?

They lost out to the Scots years ago. Then the Germans took over.
 
Old Oct 29th 2004, 8:27 am
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    >I didn't know the Channel Islands could vote in teh US elections.

Channel Islands? oh ita limey British reference. thats why only 6 people knew
it
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Old Oct 29th 2004, 8:29 am
  #144  
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    >> Britain in the Falklands.
    >The Argentineans failed in their colonial attempt for the Falklands.

The Falklands arent a colony of Britain? Thew US should have helped the
Argentines on that one. Those should have been British sailors at the bottom of
the sea
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Old Oct 29th 2004, 8:38 am
  #145  
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On 28 Oct 2004 23:42:59 GMT, [email protected] (ARKADYA) wrote:

    >Never Forgive, Never Forget
    > 9-11-01
Everytime this person posts I just wonder what happened on the 9th
November 2001 (or perhaps it was 1901, or 1801).

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Old Oct 29th 2004, 8:46 am
  #146  
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:38:25 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Julie
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On 28 Oct 2004 23:42:59 GMT, [email protected] (ARKADYA) wrote:
...
... >Never Forgive, Never Forget
... > 9-11-01
... >
... Everytime this person posts I just wonder what happened on the 9th
... November 2001 (or perhaps it was 1901, or 1801).

Welcome to the club.
 
Old Oct 29th 2004, 9:20 am
  #147  
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You did notice that you were posting to a group about Europe didn't you.
Well then again you probably don't notice where you are posting. Or
what for that matter.

ARKADYA wrote:
    >>I didn't know the Channel Islands could vote in teh US elections.

    > Channel Islands? oh ita limey British reference. thats why only 6 people knew
    > it
    > Never Forgive, Never Forget
    > 9-11-01
 
Old Oct 29th 2004, 9:24 am
  #148  
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:20:34 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "Frank F. Matthews"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... You did notice that you were posting to a group about Europe didn't you.
... Well then again you probably don't notice where you are posting. Or
... what for that matter.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...urmorewars.htm
 
Old Oct 29th 2004, 9:28 am
  #149  
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    >You did notice that you were posting to a group about Europe didn't you.

UK isnt in Europe. Its an Island in the North Sea
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Old Oct 29th 2004, 9:29 am
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    >Everytime this person posts I just wonder what happened on the 9th
    >November 2001 (or perhaps it was 1901, or 1801).

Thats because your reading it backwards, European style, Einstein
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