On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:02:35 -0500, in rec.travel.europe, anonymouse <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... now THAT is a good one!
...
... Magda wrote:
...
... > ... He's probably been informed by the same people that help CNN :
... > ...
... > ... http://www.alpineroads.com/general/switzerland.jpg
...
... you do know what CNN stands for don't you?
...
... Clinton News Network

On 11 September 2001 there was someone else on that white little house... ;)

[email protected] (Bill Moore) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > In article <[email protected]>, Magda <> wrote:
    > >On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:54:19 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Tim Challenger
    > ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > >
    > > ... On 26 Oct 2004 16:26:18 -0600, Bill Moore wrote:
    > > ...
    > > ... > God forbid someone should have to ever explain the difference
    > > ... > between Slovakia and Slovenia to him!
    > > ...
    > > ... He's probably been informed by the same people that help CNN :
    > > ...
    > > ... http://www.alpineroads.com/general/switzerland.jpg
    > >
    > >I remember that. I even kept the photo in my HD and sent it to all my
    > >american friends.
    > >Apparently their atlases are not the same as ours... LOL
    >
    >
    > Hey, we're not *all* that way.

Ask him to find Missouri on a map. After all, it is about as large and
populous as Switzerland, and it shouldn't be any more difficult to
memorize 50 US states than it is to memorize 50 European countries..

But no excuse for CNN, though, *they* should know!

Bjorn

Bjorn Olsson wrote:

    > Ask him to find Missouri on a map. After all, it is about as large and
    > populous as Switzerland, and it shouldn't be any more difficult to
    > memorize 50 US states than it is to memorize 50 European countries..
    > But no excuse for CNN, though, *they* should know!


But CNN is based in Atlanta, Georgia - it's in the US South so that is the
problem right there...it's ignorance combined with an extreme lack of
sophistication.

--
Best
Greg

"Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote
in message news:1_Ufd.11165

(snip)
    > But CNN is based in Atlanta, Georgia - it's in the US South so that is
the
    > problem right there...it's ignorance combined with an extreme lack of
    > sophistication.
    > --
    > Best
    > Greg
========

Yeah, just look at Jimmy Carter (U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize
winner) or Martin Luther King.

I think you are over-generalizing.

Tom <--- in Georgia (U.S.A.)

Good grief, the man's been out of office for an entire term. The
neocons will be blaming him for things for decades after he dies. If
they could I'm sure they find a way to blame him for WWI, WWII, Korean
War, the Great Depression, and the Alamo....etc., etc.

Give it up - it's getting old....

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:02:35 -0500, anonymouse <[email protected]>
wrote:
    >you do know what CNN stands for don't you?
    >Clinton News Network
    >--

In article <[email protected]>, Bill Moore
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > In article <271020041112330143%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >In article <[email protected]>, Bill Moore
    > ><[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >> In article <271020040906034773%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]>
    > >> wrote:
    > >> >In article <[email protected]>, Bill Moore
    > >> ><[email protected]> wrote:
    > >> >
    > >> >> In article <[email protected]>,
    > >> >> Mark Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >> >> >
    > >> >> >"Jeroen Wijnands" <[email protected]> wrote
    > >> >> >in
    > >> >> >message news:[email protected]...
    > >> >> >> Keith Willshaw wrote:
    > >> >> >>
    > >> >> >> And as to sweden not having an army:
    > >> >> >> http://www.mil.se/?lang=E
    > >> >> >> It's even one of the few countries that still develops it's own
    > >> >> >> aircrafts.
    > >> >> >
    > >> >> >It's navy also devlops its own warships. They are investing in stealth
    > >> >> >technology at the moment I believe.
    > >> >>
    > >> >> Yes. The point really is that the president of the US couldn't
    > >> >> distinguish Sweden from Switzerland.
    > >> >
    > >> >Hardly, the real point is that the NYT can NOT be the sole source of
    > >> >info.
    > >>
    > >> I think that fact that the US president seems to be a fool is a point of
    > >> interest. Attacking the messenger only goes so far...
    > >
    > >
    > >Show a source please, not a singular one either !
    >
    > So you think the NY Times writer is telling a baldfaced lie?

Recently the NYT itself has admitted to just that... printing lies.

    >
    > You haven't gotten any inkling over the past 4 years that
    > Bush might be a dummy?

No, no dummy there.

jay
Wed Oct 27, 2004
mailto:[email protected]

Which just goes to show GW knows very little about the world outside of
continental USA
Quite common of US citizens actually.
Freda

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"Bill Moore" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > In article <[email protected]>,
    > Mark Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >"Jeroen Wijnands" <[email protected]> wrote in
    > >message news:[email protected]...
    > >> Keith Willshaw wrote:
    > >>
    > >> And as to sweden not having an army:
    > >> http://www.mil.se/?lang=E
    > >> It's even one of the few countries that still develops it's own
    > >> aircrafts.
    > >
    > >It's navy also devlops its own warships. They are investing in stealth
    > >technology at the moment I believe.
    > Yes. The point really is that the president of the US couldn't
    > distinguish Sweden from Switzerland.

Am 27 Oct 2004 08:31:29 -0600 schrieb Bill Moore:

    > Yes. The point really is that the president of the US couldn't
    > distinguish Sweden from Switzerland.

Same as some Americans can't tell Austria from Australia ;-)

SCNR,

Frank

anonymouse <[email protected]> wrote:
    > you do know what CNN stands for don't you?
    > Clinton News Network

That's some funny stuff. But I thought you guys spelled Klinton with a K.

miguel
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:36:35 -0500, in rec.travel.europe, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... anonymouse <[email protected]> wrote:
... > you do know what CNN stands for don't you?
... > Clinton News Network
...
... That's some funny stuff. But I thought you guys spelled Klinton with a K.
...
... miguel

They pronounce it "Klingon".

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:41:46 +0930, "Freda" <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Which just goes to show GW knows very little about the world outside of
    >continental USA
    >Quite common of US citizens actually.
    >Freda

Oh, he knows quite a lot. He knows France and Germany are worthless
as allies. He knows France and Russia are constantly on the take from
the Saddams of the world while pretending to be holier than thou. He
knows Europe is useless in solving the major disasters of the world
including those like Bosnia on their own soil. He knows that the
European sense of justice is trials like Milosovic's which has been
bumbliing on know for over three years and even has his own lawyer
know wanting to resign because of the ridiculous manner in which this
trial has been conducted yet they would like to have the ability to
treat US soldiers the same way. He knows the likes of Belgium thinks
it has an unilateral right to try people for so called crimes not
committed anywhere near their sorry little spot on earth. He knows
the French babble on about the UN all while having invaded African
countries over 30 times since 1960 without once having gone to the UN
on a single one and all unilaterally. He knows Europe's inept
multilateralism is a complete flop in Iran where they are being given
the finger by the Imams over nuclear energy which they direly need
since they only have some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the
world but are somehow short or energy. I could go on and on but this
should be enough for even a pinhead like you to get some idea of how
that quaint little group of morons outside the continental USA as you
put it actually operate in practice. That is, when they are not
writing 80,000 pages of EU law to foist on their citizens and 300 page
constitutions.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:40:46 +0200, Magda
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:36:35 -0500, in rec.travel.europe, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
    >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... anonymouse <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ... > you do know what CNN stands for don't you?
    > ... > Clinton News Network
    > ...
    > ... That's some funny stuff. But I thought you guys spelled Klinton with a K.
    > ...
    > ... miguel
    >They pronounce it "Klingon".

No, that is an appellation reserved for the French so no one will
mistake them for real human beings.

"Bill Moore" wrote
    | ... Sweden in particular. Bush's response was "Sweden
    | is the neutral one. They don't have an army." Lantos
    | said that Bush must have thought he said *Switzerland*
    | and noted that actually they do have a national defense.
    | Bush persisted, insisting that Sweden has no army, and
    | the room was quiet until someone changed the subject.
    | Some weeks later Lantos ran into Bush, who said to him,
    | "You were right, Sweden does have an army."
    | God forbid someone should have to ever explain the
    | difference between Slovakia and Slovenia to him!

The Black Watch regiment were on telly recently (one would think that
America had enough soldiers of her own) in Iraq, under the Saltire. I do
hope the American military on the ground recognise that the Saltire is *not*
an enemy flag. They've had enough problems telling friend from foe in the
past.

Owain

"Owain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "Bill Moore" wrote
    > | ... Sweden in particular. Bush's response was "Sweden
    > | is the neutral one. They don't have an army." Lantos
    > | said that Bush must have thought he said *Switzerland*
    > | and noted that actually they do have a national defense.
    > | Bush persisted, insisting that Sweden has no army, and
    > | the room was quiet until someone changed the subject.
    > | Some weeks later Lantos ran into Bush, who said to him,
    > | "You were right, Sweden does have an army."
    > | God forbid someone should have to ever explain the
    > | difference between Slovakia and Slovenia to him!
    > The Black Watch regiment were on telly recently (one would think that
    > America had enough soldiers of her own) in Iraq, under the Saltire. I do
    > hope the American military on the ground recognise that the Saltire is
*not*
    > an enemy flag. They've had enough problems telling friend from foe in the
    > past.

The US will shoot them to hell - they'll think they're Confederates.

Surreyman

Jeremy Henderson <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > On 2004-10-27 00:26:18 +0200, [email protected] (Bill Moore) said:
    > >
    > > Some weeks later Lantos ran into Bush, who said to him, "You were
    > > right, Sweden does have an army."
    >
    > Luckily they do

I don't know about "luckily". We taxpayers finance all them fancy new
weapons, but for what purpose? As soon as there is a war looming
we'll just say "Hey, we're neutral" anyway.

Bjorn