-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 6:51 PM -0800 on 12/10/02, Tim May wrote:
> ...but > this is considered tacky in civilized places.) This from one of the world's major uphill-and-upwind misanthropes, a man who hasn't yet thought of *any* American city he wouldn't really rather see nuked until it glowed -- or any cop car he wouldn't throw rocks at. :-). Cheers, RAH Who's finally figured out it's something really trivial; it's just a good ole boy lost-the-plantation-to-the-carpetbaggers Ol' Virginny cavalier thang, right down to the mock ebonics, the horror of miscegenation, the delusions of class and pretensions of honor (see above), and, especially, all that morbid fascination with the sins of the Big City. Didn't understand it really, until I saw a couple of drunken former members of the Alexandria High School backfield try to go after this skinny Ethiopian shopowner on the Metro late one night, all full of the South Shall Rise Again, and whatchew lookin' at, boy... Not that I should talk, of course, being redneck on one side and frisian berserker dutch on the other :-), but at least it *does* explain a few things... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPfbIz8PxH8jf3ohaEQJfFwCfcMidA3SGZX5xZP0sstI/hKIAPJYAoNco OKeBZA5v8TY6iXks41lqGEpd =tqyn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "I guess it's disingenuous to argue with someone who spews truth from every orifice." --Aaron Evans
