"Keith Willshaw" wrote
    | > ... Lantos said that Bush must have thought
    | > he said *Switzerland*
    | Then Lantos is just as ignorant. Switzerland has
    | a rather large army for its size. Every able bodied
    | male of military age is required to undertake annual
    | miltary training and keep his uniform and rifle at home.

And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on the
Alpine passes.

Owain

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:23:54 +0200, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:

    > 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 ;-)

Not just them. Even the UK postal service sends letters addressed to me to
Brisbane on a regular basis.
--
Tim C.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:44:14 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:23:54 +0200, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
    >> 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 ;-)
    >Not just them. Even the UK postal service sends letters addressed to me to
    >Brisbane on a regular basis.

People living in Sebastopol S Wales used to have their mail sent to
the Crimea, others had their mail sent to New South Wales ...
allegedly
--
Martin

Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<271020042121040811%[email protected]>...
    > 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.

If only the US administration was man enough to admit the same.

    >
    > >
    > > You haven't gotten any inkling over the past 4 years that
    > > Bush might be a dummy?
    >
    > No, no dummy there.

Takes one to deny one.

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

In article <271020040906034773%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]>
wrote:

    > Look at their reporting about the 40 odd truck loads of high explosives
    > that they said were missing and implied negligence... it appears that
    > they went missing before the 101st even arrived on scene... this was
    > confirmed by a NBC imbedded reporter who was with the 101st at the
    > time.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=204304&page=1

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00:07 +0100, Owain wrote:

    > "Keith Willshaw" wrote
    >|> ... Lantos said that Bush must have thought
    >|> he said *Switzerland*
    >| Then Lantos is just as ignorant. Switzerland has
    >| a rather large army for its size. Every able bodied
    >| male of military age is required to undertake annual
    >| miltary training and keep his uniform and rifle at home.
    >
    > And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on the
    > Alpine passes.

Probably not, but the crack bicycle-mounted division is being/has been
disbanded.
--
Tim C.

Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote:
    > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00:07 +0100, Owain wrote:
    >> And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on the
    >> Alpine passes.
    > Probably not, but the crack bicycle-mounted division is being/has been
    > disbanded.

What are they going to do with all the surplus crack they already bought?

miguel
--
Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:50:38 -0500, Miguel Cruz wrote:

    > Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00:07 +0100, Owain wrote:
    >>> And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on the
    >>> Alpine passes.
    >> Probably not, but the crack bicycle-mounted division is being/has been
    >> disbanded.
    >
    > What are they going to do with all the surplus crack they already bought?

They can get rid of that in the Zürich parks. No problem there.

--
Tim C.

"Owain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "Keith Willshaw" wrote
    > | > ... Lantos said that Bush must have thought
    > | > he said *Switzerland*
    > | Then Lantos is just as ignorant. Switzerland has
    > | a rather large army for its size. Every able bodied
    > | male of military age is required to undertake annual
    > | miltary training and keep his uniform and rifle at home.
    > And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on
the
    > Alpine passes.

Nah - they're for removing Boy Scouts from Girl Guides.

Surreyman

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:50:38 -0500, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
wrote:

    >Tim Challenger <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00:07 +0100, Owain wrote:
    >>> And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on the
    >>> Alpine passes.
    >> Probably not, but the crack bicycle-mounted division is being/has been
    >> disbanded.
    >What are they going to do with all the surplus crack they already bought?

Wrong crack. It's a reference to the atrocious saddles that are fitted
to them.
--
Martin

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:54:59 GMT, "a.spencer3"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Owain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> "Keith Willshaw" wrote
    >> | > ... Lantos said that Bush must have thought
    >> | > he said *Switzerland*
    >> | Then Lantos is just as ignorant. Switzerland has
    >> | a rather large army for its size. Every able bodied
    >> | male of military age is required to undertake annual
    >> | miltary training and keep his uniform and rifle at home.
    >> And, one hopes, his penknife for removing stones from horses' hooves on
    >the
    >> Alpine passes.
    >Nah - they're for removing Boy Scouts from Girl Guides.

when I was kid it took a crowbar to budge them.

Peter Sellers
Q: How do you separate the sexes in your school headmaster?
A: with a crowbar
--
Martin

In article <271020042121040811%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >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.

So you think everything they print is a lie now? Do you think
this story about Bush is a lie?


    >>
    >> You haven't gotten any inkling over the past 4 years that
    >> Bush might be a dummy?
    >No, no dummy there.

"We cannot allow terrorists to hold this nation hostile"

-George W. Bush

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

    > In article <271020042121040811%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >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.
    >
    > So you think everything they print is a lie now? Do you think
    > this story about Bush is a lie?

I wasn't sure, thats why I asked for another independent source.

    >
    >
    > >>
    > >> You haven't gotten any inkling over the past 4 years that
    > >> Bush might be a dummy?
    > >
    > >No, no dummy there.
    >
    > "We cannot allow terrorists to hold this nation hostile"


    >
    > -George W. Bush

Kerry :"visited the KGB headquarters at Treblinka."

jay
Sun Oct 31, 2004
mailto:[email protected]


    >
    >
    >
    >

In article <311020041602119026%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >In article <[email protected]>, Bill Moore
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >> In article <271020042121040811%[email protected]>, Go Fig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> >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.
    >>
    >> So you think everything they print is a lie now? Do you think
    >> this story about Bush is a lie?
    >I wasn't sure, thats why I asked for another independent source.
    >>
    >>
    >> >>
    >> >> You haven't gotten any inkling over the past 4 years that
    >> >> Bush might be a dummy?
    >> >
    >> >No, no dummy there.
    >>
    >> "We cannot allow terrorists to hold this nation hostile"
    >>
    >> -George W. Bush
    >Kerry :"visited the KGB headquarters at Treblinka."

An embarrasing gaffe, to be sure, especially for a presidential
candidate, but to confuse the basic English words "hostage" and
"hostile" is a whole different level IMO. Bush often makes errors
I doubt that my 16 year old niece would ever make.

Kerry's inability to properly name the Red Sox MVP didn't make
him look good, either, but Kerry doesn't come close to mangling
basic English the way Bush does.

Sweden do have an army. Ask me cus i live here:)


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