Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ist.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!ist!dt From: dt@ist.UUCP (David Tilbrook) Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang,net.politics Subject: Re: non-English Articles Message-ID: <248@ist.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 09:45:26 EST Article-I.D.: ist.248 Posted: Sun Nov 18 09:45:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 05:54:33 EST References: <452@diku.UUCP> <1314@ihuxq.UUCP> <1524@qubix.UUCP> <154@uwai.UUCP> <543@diku.UUCP> <160@uwai.UUCP> Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, England Lines: 20 Xref: mcvax net.jokes:558 net.jokes.d:114 net.news.group:1846 net.nlang:161 net.politics:1744 >> Well, I consider the net.flang.all groups as another American >> imperialist gimmick. Danish is by no means *foreign* to me ! > ``another American imperialist gimmick''?????? This sounds *exactly* like > some mccarthyist spouting off with the equally ludicrous ``another red > Communist plot''; surely there are alternatives to these trite, over-used > political cliches? Better yet what about alternatives for trite, over-used politicians? Like Keld, I don't see the necessity for using the funny face to indicate this is Dane tongue in cheek. But I do ask our expert on American foreign relationship from Wisconsin to give us another phrase to describe Americans using muscle to protect their own vested interest. It is one of those phrases the rest of the world needs, somewhat like slop-bucket. -- David Tilbrook {inset, root44, mcvax, qtlon}!ist!dt Imperial Software Technology, London England