Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 00:02, Travis Crump wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 22:56, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > 
> >>begin  John Griffiths  quotation:
> >>
> >>
> (A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it?  
> >>>
> >>>just darwin
> >>
> >>So Hitler was a creationist?
> > 
> > 
> > Wrong hemisphere (actually 2 wrong hemispheres), wrong ruler...
> > 
> 
> Last I checked Germany and Australia were both in the Eastern Hemisphere...

My 1/2 bad.  I was thinking Far East and Western Europe, not 
Old World and New World.

Still, wrong hemisphere, wrong ruler...

Do Aussies have the concept of New World and Old World?  Is it
still the RAN, the RAAF, etc?

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Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Travis Crump

Ron Johnson wrote:

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 22:56, Craig Dickson wrote:


begin  John Griffiths  quotation:


(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it?  


just darwin


So Hitler was a creationist?



Wrong hemisphere (actually 2 wrong hemispheres), wrong ruler...



Last I checked Germany and Australia were both in the Eastern Hemisphere...


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Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 22:56, Craig Dickson wrote:
> begin  John Griffiths  quotation:
> 
> > >(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it?  
> > 
> > just darwin
> 
> So Hitler was a creationist?

Wrong hemisphere (actually 2 wrong hemispheres), wrong ruler...

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Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Craig Dickson
begin  John Griffiths  quotation:

> >(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it?  
> 
> just darwin

So Hitler was a creationist?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Craig


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Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread John Griffiths
>(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it?  

just darwin


>Very strong internal isolationist sentiments allowed even
>Lend-Lease to only pass Congress after major arm-twisting by 
>Roosevelt.  The only reason the the USN was able to help
>with GB in the BoA before 07-Dec was by not making it public
>knowledge.

it's that sentiment that really pissed off the rest of us

>
>If FDR _had_ followed US neutrality laws, .uk would now be
>.de.

not so sure the Brits were ready unleash a chemical armageddon if the
Germans had managed to land troops, it would have been hideous, but I
wouldn't like to try and pick a winner.


>
>If we (along, of course, with help from Coastwatchers and RAN) 
>hadn't been able to hold on to Guadalcanal, it would have been
>impossible to support ANZ even after Coral Sea.

don't get us started about losing half of our fleet (the RAN) to american
fire at the battle of Savo Island simply because they didn't look like
american ships

>Does the rest of the world think we've been a super-power since
>1776?  Up until _late_ 1941, the US _never_ever_ had anything
>but a _tiny_ standing Army.

1917? 1861-65?

>
>
>Is that some veiled reference to some hypothetical Indonesia-
>of-the-future?
>

actually the indonesia of the Sukarno era, watching them swallow timor and
west papua made us a little nervous.


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