Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.tutrp.tut.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.ac.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Duke of URL" Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.welsh,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do British hate american culture? Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:33:01 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <101anb7luj5th03@corp.supernews.com> References: <101489gtjjsfb21@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 34 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:11552 In news:bv2a8j$n7sd9$1@ID-207901.news.uni-berlin.de, Helen Ramsay radiated into the WorldWideWait: > "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote >> "Helen Ramsay" wrote > > > "THE Old Man" wrote >>>> >>>> A TYphoon? Ain't that like a hurrycane but in another part of >>>> the world? We have the hurrycanes down here. They are the >>>> reason we smart ones leave the wheels on our homes and the dumb >>>> ones either sell them or hock them. Some people take the wheels >>>> off and put skirts around the bottom of the home but then when >>>> the storms are coming and someone has to get under there to put >>>> the wheels back on there is always ALWAYS a cotton mouth or a >>>> hornet's nest under there. And I hate to hear the wife >>>> screaming. >>> >>> Cotton mouths! hornets! Remind me where you live again so that I >>> can avoid it! >> >> We've got hornets and habu, which are a kind of poisonous snake. >> We also have poisonous sea snakes, about 3 kinds of poisonous >> jellyfish, several assorted poisonous fish, etc. It can get >> complicated too, you've got to remember which ones you suck out >> the poison, which ones you rub with vinegar, which ones you rush >> to the hospital, and which ones you try to get your goodbyes in >> real quick. > > Jaysus Ryan! I sure wouldn't like to visit with you or "THE Old > Man"! Mosquitoes are worst thing we get in southern Ontario. I > think I'll stick with that:) Heh. Helen, you're running out of vacation sites...