in article ZiUsd.444151$%k.399606@pd7tw2no, Steph at steph@vancouver.island
wrote on 12/6/04 4:58 PM:

> 
> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BDD99EDB.2DB4C%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> 
>> In reviewing this thread, and your contribution to it, it appears that your
>> role was to challenge my statement to someone else "I didn't assume you were
>> English, merely that you were associated with one of the countries that once
>> was part of their empire." Your "challenge" was that America had also once
>> been part of that empire. Frankly, your argument was a non sequitur, and I
>> didn't really understand why you bothered. The reason came apparent in your
>> message of December 4, 11:34 AM, a bitter tirade about American culture,
>> while ignoring the problems within Canada.
>> 
> 
> Ernie, to call you an idiot would be an insult to idiots
> 

Steph,

You claim to be a professional, yet this is the best you can do? Bitter
tirades and stupid insults? How are you any better than bigots like
Michilin?