[OT] Happy Canada Day!

Happy Boring-Dead-Lawyers-Arguing-in-PEI Day to the rest of the
Canadians on the list!

I know there's a small holiday <grin> happening in the US soon too, so
Happy Successful-Terrorist-Insurrection Day (in advance) to our comrades
in the People's Revolutionary Democratic Republic[1] of the United States of
America.

*Have a great one! Will there be fireworks? lol

Happy Boring-Dead-Lawyers-Arguing-in-PEI Day to the rest of the
Canadians on the list!

I know there's a small holiday <grin> happening in the US soon too, so
Happy Successful-Terrorist-Insurrection Day (in advance) to our comrades
in the People's Revolutionary Democratic Republic[1] of the United States of
America.

*We were never happy at home with mom.....unlike our siblings to the
north.......)

Brian.
[1] I know these four terms are not usually applied to the USA, but they
are all literally true, y'know, when stripped of their 20th Century polsci
freight... PRDRs don't *have* to be tropical Marxist
"paradises" - perhaps you should reclaim the terms!

*Lesson one, the more you say democratic, democracy,or freedom loving the less
you really mean it.......)

I didn't find this post humorous at all but rather alienating. I would
request, Brian, that you keep your particular brand of political smegma on
your own web page an off of this mail list. If not for game sake then do it
for bandwidth sake. I use this list to learn how to play Full Thrust and have
my newbie questions answered, not to be forced to look a your nether regions.

Malis

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> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, John C. Malis wrote:

> I didn't find this post humorous at all but rather alienating.

Huh? It was a joke, a satirical comment on both my country (Canada) and our
great[1] neighbour to the south, with whom we have (among other things) our
major national[ist] holidays very close together. We also have
very different founding histories, hence the dead-lawyers vs
successful-insurrection joke.

The 'People's Democratic Revolutionary etc etc etc' line was a polsci joke
- pointing out how words get grossly misused by the passage of history.
Given how much future history/GZGverse stuff gets talked about here, it
might even be vaugely on topic.

Dog, I hate having to explain jokes & satire to people...

> your own web page an off of this mail list.

Just for the record, there is a (quite deliberate) lack of overt political
content on my website[2]. I do link (on my main/index page) to a wide
variety of international organizations, some of whom are contraversial -
Greenpeace, for example - but I do so with NO commentary, just the link
to various homepages. *I* don't always agree entirely with all of the
organizations I link to; I don't expect any visitors to either. I just think
they're worth the webspace, for various reasons.

The vast majority of my site (ie every page except about half of index.html)
is strictly wargaming.