Subject: RE: a nice slice of Edam
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 14:10:10 GMT
Wow. How do you know what the german sense of humor
looks like?
To Zazie: your anti-american way of thinking seems
like the new european obscurantism.
Anyway. I'm very sad: the green card lottery hasn't
chosen me. One more year in Europe with SweetZazie and
Old Scottie: not that bad...
Val
--- Sean Draine <seandr@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Oh dear. First the German sense of humor gets a poke
> in the eye. Now the
> Dutch get it in the groin. It's really a quite
> miracle we're only up to
> the 2nd World War. Thankfully, most of the
> nationalistic squawking that
> seems to characterize intra-European relations
> doesn't carry across the
> Atlantic to interrupt 24 hour coverage of "The
> Congressman and the
> Missing Intern".
>
> Nevertheless, I'll grant that the British are pretty
> damn funny. While
> in NYC a few weeks ago, I rented a bootlegged copy
> of Eddie Izzard's
> _Dressed to Kill_ and laughed myself to tears.
> Yanks, if you can get
> your hands on an Eddie Izzard video, I highly
> recommend it.
>
> - Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scottie Bowman [mailto:rbowman@indigo.ie]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:16 AM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org; lray@centenary.edu
> Subject: a nice slice of Edam
>
>
>
> After these latest effusions from Holland, you
> Yanks will
> appreciate why the great majority of us Brits
> look westward
> to our cousins across the wide Atlantic (as we
> always have
> done) for mutual understanding & enrichment.
>
> Your President was essentially correct when he
> identified
> Belgium as the capital of Europe. And you can
> see in Brussells
> a perfect microcosm of the corruption,
> conformity & (laughably
> ill-founded) conceit that characterises the New
> Europe.
>
> All this would be enough to deter us from having
> anything
> further to do with what is increasingly
> obviously a doomed
> enterprise. But the real smackeroo, the true
> killer, what closes
> off all further discussion, is the prospect of
> being exposed,
> day in day out, to the inimitable, leaden humour
> of a load
> of jolly, milk-fed Dutchmen.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
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