In article <akoob094h9care8nre62e5l01fdgdk125e@4ax.com>,
 Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:27:10 +0900, Rodney Webster
> <rgw_news001@knot.mine.nu> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
> 
> >I'm been referring to myself as "half-German" since I was a kid
> 
> That's just a desperate attempt to divert attention from the fact that
> you're Tasmanian. Anything would be preferable to that.

Only to avoid unwanted attention from (ex-)sailors.  I have an aversion 
to seamen.

-- 
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/