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Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T14:22:53Z

Of course not. But Estonia, which remained ethnically and culturally
its own nation (for example, it's Lutheran, and westwards-facing, not
Orthodox/Slavic), was for the first time able to express its own
cultural identity, which it did with gusto. Despite the rest of the
world being in the Depression for part of the period, the economic

Re: Genesis 1 & 2: Is There A Contradiction?

2009-11-25T13:35:02Z

You can say anything you wish, Cross, it is a free country.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T12:59:01Z

In article <4b0cdfd0$0$1648$742ec...@news .sonic.net>,
... and I can filter them out. And I don't need to choose yet another
damned passowrd or answer any intrusive questions about myslef (CREATE A
PROFILE!!!!!!)

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T12:12:24Z

In article
<pbkpg5p06adpkm3tfug526khh36t2 dh...@news.eternal-september.o rg>,
I am reminded of an acquaintance who said the Japanese were always
giggling. He didn't realize the joke was on him. He was probably making
effeminate gestures or crude gestures all the time and had no insight.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T11:38:08Z

Maybe you can stare it down. Or fold in your elbows. At least use
less road space while a vehicle passes than when you're proceeding.
If it really is coming right at you, jump into the snowdrift anyhow.
I use a similar practice when bicycling, although I'm the traffic and
heading the same direction as other traffic - use the centre of my

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T11:28:34Z

Yes it has, Google - oh.
Huh. Some of us more than others.
It kind of fits a tune that _Mad_ magazine in the old days swiped for
their parody (...maybe not really a parody except that far), titled
"I've Got to Stop Smoking" - and performed by a cartoon of a child. I
wonder if that's enough to identify.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T11:18:02Z

Walter's 35 but his father is one of those guys who lets slide bigtime
all those little things that the man of the house is supposed to do.
Thus, -
I understand it was particularly embarrassing at school. Being the
only kid there with unfused gametes. (Other than in the obvious
sense.)

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T11:03:00Z

On Nov 24, 12:28 am, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
I hope it isn't one of those foods that, like chocolate, they enjoy
but is liable to be lethal to them!
...Same goes for us!
In fact (this isn't going to be a dog story) I found - provisionally -
that suddenly regular peanut butter seems to make me short of breath;

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

2009-11-25T10:59:57Z

Probably not so much the welfare state as the British Commonwealth -
trade with the Caribbean could be expected to resume as normal with
U-boats out of the picture.

Slipping on banana peels was a standard plot device in the "Beano".
That was probably where Tolkien got it - his essay was written a year

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-25T10:54:51Z

On Nov 25, 5:23 am, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
That's interesting, because it implies that two other effects weren't
in operation, besides the most obvious one. (Which is that you can
instantly despise someone on account of their accent, but be persuaded
later of their worth. Then again, you may have been right the first

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

2009-11-25T10:43:24Z

Making Ireland the largest exporter of bananas in Europe.

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

2009-11-25T10:03:58Z

That statement is doubly ironic because Fyffes *is* actually a real proper
English brand. Just one that belonged to a company which had a large
amount of stock (45% according to wikipedia) bought by United Fruit very
early in its existence. It is now an Irish company.

Re: LHC starts colliding and Earth lives!

2009-11-25T09:44:23Z

No way. The incoming cosmic radiation happens to have energies
surpassing the foreseen LHC scale by many orders of magnitude.
Michal

LHC starts colliding and Earth lives!

2009-11-25T09:35:08Z

After years of fears that the Large Hadron Collider would implode the Earth
once it started colliding particles, turns out Earth survives. No black
hole, white hole, worm hole, or any rifts in the spacetime continuum are
created:
[link]

Canada has a phaser; uses it on worms

2009-11-25T09:29:05Z

[link]
Finally Canada takes a lead in high tech weapon field--and declares war on
worms. That does seem so Canadian.
-- Ken from Chicago
P.S. Canada is also the homeland of William Shatner ... coincidence?!