[ale] [OT] Looking for an old beater motorcycle.

Neal Rhodes neal at mnopltd.com
Mon Aug 12 12:35:27 EDT 2013


or, more accurately, the off.off.off.off.off-topic,  which was itself
originally off-topic. 

I'm thinkin' when the original post was off-topic, there really aren't
any social norms left to follow. 

*8-)


On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 23:57 +0800, Boris Borisov wrote:
> We've got away from topic :)
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> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Scott Plante
> <splante at insightsys.com> wrote:
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>         I've also heard it referred to as "The War of Northern
>         Aggression".
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>         From: "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com>
>         To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>         Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 3:25:08 PM
>         Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Looking for an old beater motorcycle.
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>         well amongst the born Southern, the Civil War was referred to
>         as "the recent unpleasantness". 
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>         On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 06:22 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: 
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>                 On 08/09/2013 04:27 PM, James Taylor wrote:
>                 > I once  ran that line by a guy I worked with from London, and he had no idea what I was talking about.
>                 > Apparently the line was a result of the (justly deserved) reputation that British cars' electrics had.
>                 Yes, they do have selective memories.  I once mentioned in passing the 
>                 war of 1812 to a pretty intelligent friend from England, and he said, "I 
>                 never heard of it, we didn't fight the US then".  He did some research 
>                 and came back a bit shocked that they didn't ever mention it in the 
>                 history texts in his schools.
>                 
>                 Jim.
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