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Message #13766
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:28:16 +1200
Subject: Re: 1381's in Australia (OT)
>> I guess this means that you Yanks have a pretty good deal!
>Yanks....! Hey watch it Ben. Our Civil War wasn't that long ago.
>Many take that as an insult (me maybe). Americans. Not Yanks.
How does "Americans" work, given all the people of all the countries
that can come under that heading when we're actually trying to single
out the USA? (If I was Canadian, I'd probably find it insulting :-)
U.S. citizens?
Non-Canadian North Americans?
Err...
Well, I'm stumped :-)
13767 Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:31:16 EDT Re: 1381's in Australia beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com In a message dated 4/20/00 7:00:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
william@characterlink.net writes:
<< > I guess this means that you Yanks have a pretty good deal!
Yanks....! Hey watch it Ben. Our Civil War wasn't that long ago. Many take
that as an insult (me maybe). Americans. Not Yanks.
-William >>
that's somewhat odd, i've only been called a yank by a select few people.
Just remeber, if you want to get both northern U.S. citizens and southern
U.S. citizens, call us hmm...the great western evil. (That's a joke, for all
you people who don't know alot about eastern religions, ignore this message!)
C'ya
-Spencer
<http://www.botic.com/users/beamstop>
not a robot scientist
not a college major
not a grad student
not a professor
not a very organized person
just Spencer (isn't that impressive enough?)
13768 Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:32:21 EDT Re: You guys disappoint me beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com In a message dated 4/20/00 7:00:26 PM Central Daylight Time,
william@characterlink.net writes:
<< Personally I say a robot is "an electromechanical connection of perception
and action dictated by the rules set forth by the programmer/builder, with
locomotion." Without out the locomotion part, a computer can be seem as a
robot. I would say that a led blinker is not a robot.
-William >>
concise, to the point, and accurate; i like that! I would concur on that
opinion. C'ya
-Spencer
<http://www.botic.com/users/beamstop>
not a robot scientist
not a college major
not a grad student
not a professor
not a very organized person
just Spencer (isn't that impressive enough?)
13769 Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:45:29 -0500 Re: 1381's in Australia beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG At 08:31 PM 4/20/00 EDT, you wrote:
>
> Yanks....! Hey watch it Ben. Our Civil War wasn't that long ago. Many take
> that as an insult (me maybe). Americans. Not Yanks.
*sigh* i guess you get offended when we are referred to as "the colonies"
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