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Troy Parsons

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How does a Canadian spell Canada?

C eh N eh D eh


Happy Canada Day everyone!!
-Troy The Surf Wookie
"You shall respect my Authoritay"-Eric Cartman (South Park)


Scotty

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We know that Canada is a place that Uncle Fuckers and Donkey Raping Shit
Eaters live.

What else is there? Besides Bungee Zone in Nainamo Canada.

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:Ok, well, did we really NEED all that bashing? now, i DONT ned 150 of you
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:LIKE:"BLAME CANADA", the canadian ministers, "aboot", and canadas army.
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:BUT. since when did canada become a target of everyone. family guy,
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:and southpak are a few primetime shows to make fun of canada.
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:how many AMERICANS here know anything about canada?
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Steven Campbell

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Steven Campbell

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thanks for proving my point you igorant american.


Scotty <scottyh...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> We know that Canada is a place that Uncle Fuckers and Donkey Raping Shit
> Eaters live.
>
> What else is there? Besides Bungee Zone in Nainamo Canada.
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David Crowe

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Steven Campbell <dokte...@home.com> wrote:


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I was surprised that this movie made it to Canada, frankly. Canada has a
history of intercepting material its goverment finds offensive, (The NY
Times, pornographic comics, etc) and this movie was about as offensive as
you could get.

Besides, do you think the _US_ came off looking that good in the movie?

I know some other things about Canada that I find rather offensive, but
this isn't the place to list them.

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Frank Servera

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I was born and grew up in canada and now i live in the states
temporarily. I am not at all offended by the joke i see on tv and in
the new south park, because there just jokes, but i guess you would have
to have a since of humor


vjmorton

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In article <OQWe3.20450$g02....@news.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com>, "Steven
Campbell" <dokte...@home.com> wrote:

I would give two reasons for all the Canada jokes:

First the bad and pitiful reason ... there is no Canadian Anti-Defamation
League and they're one of the few safe targets left. Now South Park is
quite willing to make jokes about Latin America, Africa, Chinese,
homosexuals, feminists, etc. But with the other shows, I think it's more
the shrinking humor pool political correctness is creating.

Second, the good reason (more applicable to SP) is that making Canada the
enemy goes so far beyond the plausible as to stake out territory in the
surreal. There is no more pacific border in the world than that between
the US and Canada. A US-Canada war is about as implausible a political
development as I can imagine. So, for South Park's style of deliberate
bizarro, the plot involving anti-Canada sentiment over popular
entertainment leading to war and the apocalypse is perfect. Even assuming
your claim that Americans are ignorant of Canada be true, that's precisely
why the popular Blame Canada movement is funny -- that it would be a
manufactured hysteria. It's of a piece with the public buying holding in
farts as the cause of spontaneous combustion (one one of the TV episodes)
... You're supposed to drop your jaw at the combination of implausability
and easy acceptance.

p.s. I'm from Scotland ... and how am I supposed to react to Canuck Mike
Myers' Fat Bastard, Ax murderer movie and SNL shop skit on these terms?

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Scotty

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Ya know, for being in a South Park newsgroup, you obviously can't read humor
and sarcasim. We have no further need to communicate with you until you
correct your problem.

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:thanks for proving my point you igorant american.


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Mike V.

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On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 04:01:50 GMT, "Steven Campbell"
<dokte...@home.com> posted :

<snip>


>how many AMERICANS here know anything about canada?

Well, I know that the official motto is:

"Welcome to Canada, America's white trash suburb."

Mike V.
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ti...@enteract.bottblock.com

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Steven Campbell <dokte...@home.com> said...

> G
> O
> E
> S

> AHEM....

Oh, lighten up. The movie bashed *everything*, not just Canadians. And
the thought of the US going to war with Canada has enough over-the-top
insanity to make it all the more ludicrous.

(Besides, the pie chart of Canada's GNP that showed "The X-Files Filming"
as a significant source of income was hilarious.)

> BUT. since when did canada become a target of everyone. family guy, ellen,
> and southpak are a few primetime shows to make fun of canada.

And *how* long have you been watching "South Park"? Canada's been a
target for a long time.

> how many AMERICANS here know anything about canada?

I know enough about it from having spent summers up there (and still
maintain enough of a Canadian accent on words like "house" and "about"
that I've been asked if I'm Canadian) to know that you're taking it
waaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.

Tirya
(who can bleed for five days without dying. And if I'm not offended by
Garrison's misogynestic commentary, y'all can lighten up about the Canada
thing. Seriously.)

RDM1976

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>> Ok, well, did we really NEED all that bashing? now, i DONT ned 150 of you
>> flaming me, its a waste of your time.
>
>> LIKE:"BLAME CANADA", the canadian ministers, "aboot", and canadas army.

Go rent Canadian Bacon. That's another America goes to war with Canada and, in
my opinion, the Canadians end up looking a whole lot better than the Americans.
Besides, it's all in fun. Except for Alan Thicke, Canada is pretty cool by
me.

Roger Waters

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RDM1976 wrote:

> Go rent Canadian Bacon. That's another America goes to war with Canada and, in
> my opinion, the Canadians end up looking a whole lot better than the Americans.
> Besides, it's all in fun. Except for Alan Thicke, Canada is pretty cool by
> me.

We're not apologizing for Alan Thicke, after all, you Americans welcomed him with
open arms. We will for Celine Dion though.

I don't know what this Campbell guy was so offended about this film. Maybe if he
saw it on another level, and saw the absurdity associated with the US declaring war
on its largest trading partner, ally and friend, all over a flatulent movie, he'd
may be able to get the joke. I did. After all, wasn't the whole point in that
song "Blame Canada" to show just how the PC types have to find something to blame
rather than themselves for their kids' watching/listening to/reading material that
they shouldn't be?
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AJ

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We Canadians are known for our sarcasm. Have you never seen Strange Brew or
what aboot Canadian Bacon with John Candy? Lighten up. Everyone in the world
knows that Canada is probably one of the most beautiful, safest, friendly
places in the world. Laugh damn it. Laugh. I know you're showing your pride
for our birthday yesterday and all, but man, what's up your ass?

I say bring it on. Lets face it, I mean really (with no offence intended
here) on the world scale most people think of America as an arrogant bully
superpower, kind of like MechaStriesand, so if on a world scale American
media is making fun of us, do you think anyone is going to take them
seriously. It's a form of flattery man, they're just jealous that they have
to pay for their health care and we can go see a doctor for fun because our
farts smell funny. It's the way it is.

Go watch some SCTV, chill out with a Kokanee, and Bring it On Baby!!!!!!

AJ

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Problem here: There's no trash in Canada. It's a very clean country.

AJ

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>We're not apologizing for Alan Thicke, after all, you Americans welcomed
him with
>open arms. We will for Celine Dion though.


She's from Quebec - duhhhhhh

James D

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Canada isn't a real country anyway.

In article <xcef3.7160$P61....@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com>, "AJ"

RDM1976

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>We Canadians are known for our sarcasm. Have you never seen Strange Brew or
>what aboot Canadian Bacon with John Candy?

I love Strange Brew! That is one funny ass movie. "The power of the force
stopped you, you hosers!"

Mike V.

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On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 02:06:46 GMT, "AJ" <a...@123.com> posted :

>Problem here: There's no trash in Canada. It's a very clean country.

White trash seems to know no bounds, however.


biohazard

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On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 02:09:48 GMT, "AJ" <a...@123.com> wrote:

>She's from Quebec - duhhhhhh

Uh, Quebec is still part of Canada...those Laporte-murdering-FLQ
-Marxist-separatist bastards haven't gotten their way *yet*...


bio...@mindspring.com


Roger Waters

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AJ wrote:

> >We're not apologizing for Alan Thicke, after all, you Americans welcomed
> him with
> >open arms. We will for Celine Dion though.
>

> She's from Quebec - duhhhhhh

True... but seeing as we're always having to bend over for those damn frenchies,
guess we've got to be apologetic for letting quebec (ncdda) associate with us.

RPP

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On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 04:01:50 GMT, "Steven Campbell"
<dokte...@home.com> wrote:

>
>AHEM....


>
>Ok, well, did we really NEED all that bashing? now, i DONT ned 150 of you
>flaming me, its a waste of your time.


WHAT bashing? Canada came off looking the BEST in that movie. If
anyone was bashed it was the US. Were you offended by Canadian Bacon
as well? Get a grip, it was funny movie, and as I said, the US came
off looking by far the worst. Did a few "aboot" jokes offend you? Amn,
you really are thin skinned. hank God for a movie like this that can
offend such cry babies like yourself. We need more offensive movies
instead of shit like Wild Wild West.

Eric Perlin

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Steven Campbell wrote in message ...
>how many AMERICANS here know anything about canada?


Canada is great! Were it not for Canada, all the American draft
dodgers would have to go to Mexico.


Eric Perlin

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Steven Campbell wrote in message ...
>BUT. since when did canada become a target of everyone.
>family guy, ellen, and southpak are a few primetime
>shows to make fun of canada.


Sorry to be insulting, but I think that the South Park movie went
over your head.

Did you also get offended at all the ethnic slurs on All In the
Family?


Jonathan Mock

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In article <TVNf3.148$f_5....@news.cwix.com>, "Eric Perlin"
<ericp...@SPAMSUCKScwix.com> wrote:

It's double irony - some people think South Park makes fun of Canada when
what it lampoons are some peoples preconeptions about Canada.

I;ve yet to come across a Canadian who's offended by South Park.

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Ignorance and prejudice, and fear, walk hand in hand...²

BanBettman

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um....RUSH is Canada's ambassadors of Music, got the Royal Order of
Canada, Jean Crieton is the prime minister....uh....the last Quebec
referendum lost by only a few thousand votes to suceed from Canada to
become a seperate county, the national sport is LaCrosse, NOT ice
hockey, The Tragically Hip are Canada's 2nd biggest rock act, Canada
celebrates BOXING DAY, Canada Day is on July 1st, uh...1972 Canada
Summit Series they beat RUSSIA, there are 2 French speaking provinces,
Ottawa is the Capital, um....they spell center 'centre' uh....what
else....they say eh...'strange brew' is the best movie ever! SCTV is
Canada's version of SNL starring Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas,
etc., Kids in the Hall , Canadian, etc........shall I go on? And no
I've never lived there, I just hate the U.S. , except for the weather
here in SoCal, it's only about 75 right now, perfect.

> AHEM....
>
> Ok, well, did we really NEED all that bashing? now, i DONT ned 150 of you
> flaming me, its a waste of your time.
>

> LIKE:"BLAME CANADA", the canadian ministers, "aboot", and canadas army.
>

> BUT. since when did canada become a target of everyone. family guy, ellen,
> and southpak are a few primetime shows to make fun of canada.
>

> how many AMERICANS here know anything about canada?
>

Jonathan Mock

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From: BanBettman <sano...@earthlink.net>


> um....RUSH is Canada's ambassadors of Music, got the Royal Order of
> Canada, Jean Crieton is the prime minister....uh....the last Quebec
> referendum lost by only a few thousand votes to suceed from Canada to
> become a seperate county, the national sport is LaCrosse, NOT ice
> hockey, The Tragically Hip are Canada's 2nd biggest rock act, Canada
> celebrates BOXING DAY, Canada Day is on July 1st, uh...1972 Canada
> Summit Series they beat RUSSIA, there are 2 French speaking provinces,
> Ottawa is the Capital, um....they spell center 'centre' uh....what
> else....they say eh...'strange brew' is the best movie ever! SCTV is
> Canada's version of SNL starring Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas,
> etc., Kids in the Hall , Canadian, etc........shall I go on? And no
> I've never lived there, I just hate the U.S. , except for the weather
> here in SoCal, it's only about 75 right now, perfect.

You forgot the Battle of Queenston Heights, but then so many do...

:-)

Sarutama

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Two things

1) having lacross as you natinal sport is NOT a good thing.Rather it is quite
gay

2) If you hate the usa so much, then fucking leave

Wallace J.McLean

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Jonathan Mock (jonathan.m...@ukonline.co.uk) writes:
> It's double irony - some people think South Park makes fun of Canada when
> what it lampoons are some peoples preconeptions about Canada.
>
> I;ve yet to come across a Canadian who's offended by South Park.

The loudest laughs at the screening I saw in Ottawa were the Canadian
references, esp. the "Minister of Movies", "Blame Canada", the burning, etc.

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Collin Lee Erickson

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Jonathan Mock wrote:
>
> From: BanBettman <sano...@earthlink.net>
>
> > um....RUSH is Canada's ambassadors of Music, got the Royal Order of
> > Canada, Jean Crieton is the prime minister....uh....the last Quebec
> > referendum lost by only a few thousand votes to suceed from Canada to
> > become a seperate county, the national sport is LaCrosse, NOT ice
> > hockey, The Tragically Hip are Canada's 2nd biggest rock act, Canada
> > celebrates BOXING DAY, Canada Day is on July 1st, uh...1972 Canada
> > Summit Series they beat RUSSIA, there are 2 French speaking provinces,
> > Ottawa is the Capital, um....they spell center 'centre' uh....what
> > else....they say eh...'strange brew' is the best movie ever! SCTV is
> > Canada's version of SNL starring Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas,
> > etc., Kids in the Hall , Canadian, etc........shall I go on? And no
> > I've never lived there, I just hate the U.S. , except for the weather
> > here in SoCal, it's only about 75 right now, perfect.
>
> You forgot the Battle of Queenston Heights, but then so many do...
>
> :-)

Also, a few more things: Our prime minister is Jean C-H-R-E-T-I-E-N, we spell
'color' C-O-L-O-U-R, 'neighbor' N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R, etc. Also, we have the
'Tom Green' show, which is one of the silliest and most gruesome shows ever!
It's WORSE than South Park!!


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On 05 Jul 1999 16:01:36 GMT, saru...@aol.com (Sarutama) wrote:

>Two things
>
>1) having lacross as you natinal sport is NOT a good thing.Rather it is quite
>gay

Hey, eat shit and die, pal. We have the Philadelpia Wings indoor
lacrosse team here in the Delaware Valley and they're 5 time world
champs... we regularly kick the shit out of the Canadian teams.

You don't know WHAT lacrosse is until you've seen it done Philly
style. There is NO audience more nasty and brutal to both the home and
away teams than Philadelphia. I've seen guys take concussions and get
the shit knocked out of them during games... they wear a fraction of
the padding hockey players and football players wear, and they run up
and down the adtroturf so much, it would make a normal man puke his
guts up. Not to mention that taking a spill on turf will shred your
kneecaps faster than a food processor. Lacrosse is a very fast-paced,
brutal sport.

>2) If you hate the usa so much, then fucking leave

I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.

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Lone Wolf wrote:

> Hey, eat shit and die, pal. We have the Philadelpia Wings indoor
> lacrosse team here in the Delaware Valley and they're 5 time world
> champs... we regularly kick the shit out of the Canadian teams.

Until the Toronto Rock came "aboot"... who's got the championship now? You're right,
had a chance to take in a couple games at MLG - these guys are brutal, and the crowd
was really into it. Small wonder this sport's gonna keep that old building alive and
rockin' long after the Leafs price their way out of most of our budgets in that
Edifice of Corporate Greed.

> You don't know WHAT lacrosse is until you've seen it done Philly
> style. There is NO audience more nasty and brutal to both the home and
> away teams than Philadelphia. I've seen guys take concussions and get
> the shit knocked out of them during games... they wear a fraction of
> the padding hockey players and football players wear, and they run up
> and down the adtroturf so much, it would make a normal man puke his
> guts up. Not to mention that taking a spill on turf will shred your
> kneecaps faster than a food processor. Lacrosse is a very fast-paced,
> brutal sport.

You got that right. Nice to see that the owners of the Rock have no intentions on
raising ticket prices next year either (top ticket's C$20 - about US$14). Hope to
see more teams, and thus more games.

Jonathan Mock

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From: ag...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Wallace J.McLean)

Besides, didn't I spot Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the soudntrack singing
"O Canada" - if that's not being able to laugh at yourselves, I don't know
what it.

God bless Canada!

Stephen Hopkins

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>In article <TVNf3.148$f_5....@news.cwix.com>, "Eric Perlin"
><ericp...@SPAMSUCKScwix.com> wrote:
>
>> Steven Campbell wrote in message ...

>> >BUT. since when did canada become a target of everyone.
>> >family guy, ellen, and southpak are a few primetime
>> >shows to make fun of canada.
>>

>> Sorry to be insulting, but I think that the South Park movie went
>> over your head.
>>
>> Did you also get offended at all the ethnic slurs on All In the
>> Family?
>

>It's double irony - some people think South Park makes fun of Canada
when
>what it lampoons are some peoples preconeptions about Canada.

Yes! And it may well be *precisely* shows such as those aforementioned
that the movie is lampooning.

As everyone here will know (well, almost everyone... <looks around>)
South Park, for all its apparent piss takes of all and sundry, is
actually ridiculing small-town America. If the Mayor or someone makes
some reference to Mexicans, then SP is not lampooning Mexicans, per
se: it is lampooning Americans' attitudes towards Mexicans AS
EXPRESSED BY the Mayor. Much of what it ridicules is actually an
indirect attack on how Americans ridicule the same. It's actually
pretty subtle irony. (Does South Park intentionally ridicule itself, I
wonder? Hmmm?)


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Jonathan Mock

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> >It's double irony - some people think South Park makes fun of Canada
> when
> >what it lampoons are some peoples preconeptions about Canada.
>
> Yes! And it may well be *precisely* shows such as those aforementioned
> that the movie is lampooning.
>
> As everyone here will know (well, almost everyone... <looks around>)
> South Park, for all its apparent piss takes of all and sundry, is
> actually ridiculing small-town America. If the Mayor or someone makes
> some reference to Mexicans, then SP is not lampooning Mexicans, per
> se: it is lampooning Americans' attitudes towards Mexicans AS
> EXPRESSED BY the Mayor. Much of what it ridicules is actually an
> indirect attack on how Americans ridicule the same. It's actually
> pretty subtle irony. (Does South Park intentionally ridicule itself, I
> wonder? Hmmm?)
>
>
> - --
> Stephen Hopkins <shop...@glyfada.freeserve.co.uk>

Indeed, SP ha made more pithy barbs about Amercian culture than it ever has
with Canada. I mean, for all the jokes about how cool it is to own a gun, I
doubt whether Stone and Parker subsrobe to the NRA...

Cronos

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Lone Wolf wrote in message <378143b7...@news.erols.com>...
<<SNNNIIIIPPPP>>

>I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.

We will welcome you. Just ignore the Government. Everyone else does.
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Lone Wolf wrote:

>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:48:39 +0930, "Cronos" <in...@willall.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> >Lone Wolf wrote in message <378143b7...@news.erols.com>...
> ><<SNNNIIIIPPPP>>
> >>I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.
> >
> >We will welcome you. Just ignore the Government. Everyone else does.
>
> I'll even buy everyone a round of Fosters. Fair dinkum.
>

Hey! I was led to believe that Fosters was crap, and that the various
Australian microbrews were the way to go. If that's the case, then
wouldn't offering a Fosters to a visitor be an insult? Another way of
saying, "Your palette probably cannot descriminate between a quality
beer and kangaroo piss, so there's no need to waste the good stuff on
you. Here, have a Fosters." :)

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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:48:39 +0930, "Cronos" <in...@willall.com.au>
wrote:

>Lone Wolf wrote in message <378143b7...@news.erols.com>...
><<SNNNIIIIPPPP>>
>>I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.
>
>We will welcome you. Just ignore the Government. Everyone else does.

I'll even buy everyone a round of Fosters. Fair dinkum.

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Lone Wolf

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Jul 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/19/99
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:22:18 -0400, Dave <rat...@gate.net> wrote:

>Lone Wolf wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:48:39 +0930, "Cronos" <in...@willall.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Lone Wolf wrote in message <378143b7...@news.erols.com>...
>> ><<SNNNIIIIPPPP>>
>> >>I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.
>> >
>> >We will welcome you. Just ignore the Government. Everyone else does.
>>
>> I'll even buy everyone a round of Fosters. Fair dinkum.
>>
>

>Hey! I was led to believe that Fosters was crap, and that the various
>Australian microbrews were the way to go. If that's the case, then
>wouldn't offering a Fosters to a visitor be an insult? Another way of
>saying, "Your palette probably cannot descriminate between a quality
>beer and kangaroo piss, so there's no need to waste the good stuff on
>you. Here, have a Fosters." :)

Well, shit... I'd almost bankrupt myself moving Down Under... I'd have
no choice but to buy the cheap shit.

Cronos

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Jul 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/20/99
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Lone Wolf wrote in message <37929015...@news.erols.com>...

>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:22:18 -0400, Dave <rat...@gate.net> wrote:
>
>>Lone Wolf wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:48:39 +0930, "Cronos" <in...@willall.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Lone Wolf wrote in message <378143b7...@news.erols.com>...
>>> ><<SNNNIIIIPPPP>>
>>> >>I'm already working on moving to Australia, thanks.
>>> >
>>> >We will welcome you. Just ignore the Government. Everyone else
does.
>>>
>>> I'll even buy everyone a round of Fosters. Fair dinkum.
>>>
>>
>>Hey! I was led to believe that Fosters was crap, and that the
various
>>Australian microbrews were the way to go. If that's the case, then
>>wouldn't offering a Fosters to a visitor be an insult? Another way
of
>>saying, "Your palette probably cannot descriminate between a quality
>>beer and kangaroo piss, so there's no need to waste the good stuff
on
>>you. Here, have a Fosters." :)
>
>Well, shit... I'd almost bankrupt myself moving Down Under... I'd
have
>no choice but to buy the cheap shit.
>
Actually, Dave is right. Fosters may be well known world wide, but
here, I don't know anyone who drinks the crap.
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