On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:46:11AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:21:00 -0600, > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message > <[🔎] 1068963660.6913.53.camel@haggis.homelan>: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:44, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:52:00 -0800, > > > Tom <tb.31112.nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message > > > <[🔎] 20031115205200.GA26756@comcast.net>: > > > > > > > > The whole reason nobody likes America is we are all the people in > > > > the world who told the rest of ya to fuck off, we're leaving :-) > > > > > > ..uhmmm, you lift off firing all those nice siloed nukes? > > > Have a nice trip. ;-) > > > > Maybe I'm just too tired, but, "What?????" > > ..well, you know how rock is removed from construction sites? ;-) "...It relies on the peculiar properties of some otherwise quite useless metals. They don't like being *squeezed*. So they go bang. With alacrity... I thought it might be useful in the mining industry. For when you need to move mountains out of the way." - Leonard of Quirm on the Discworld's first nuke design My take on Tom's post would be to reply "No, nobody likes America because you *came back* with big money and big guns and wanting the rest of the world organised for your benefit". I *think* Arnt is trying to express something similar but in a much more figurative style. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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