Re: Break-even point for home electric generator powered by natural gas? What about NG-powered AC compressor? - Page 4

 

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:02:21 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:


    Well..... ummm....... 'recently' :-)


    Better her than Maureen Dowd or Katrina Vanden Heuval !!!!


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I note that the US has continued it's fine old tradition of dropping
bombs on Canadian troops as late as just a year or two ago...  <sickly grin>

[Which is kinda disappointing, because the US has also been issuing
Canadian troops with a fair number of medals for their efforts in
Afghanistan.]
 

Considering that in this country, being a "liberal" isn't considered
worse than being a pedophile, and that our politics are considered
by many of your politicians to be slightly to the left of Fidel
Castro's, I suspect I wouldn't agree.

But, I don't know of either of them well enough to comment ;-)
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Gotta give 'em something shiny to play with so they feel important...

 

Y'know what really seems to bug most Canadians?  That the rest of the world
does know a damn thing about them, and frankly doesn't care.

 


Your sentence construction only makes logical sense if you _meant_
"doesn't know a damn thing".  Which is wrong actually. The rest
of the world does know quite a bit about Canada, tho, liberally
sprinkled with the usual stereotypes (singing mounties and the
rest).  An opportunity for humour and considerable kidding, not
being bugged about.

What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
appallingly bad the US educational system is.  The worst
in the 1st world.  Which is particularly annoying since
we've always been your largest trading partner - eg:
your largest supplier of petro fuels for most of the past
few years.

Instead, we see the results of an educational system that
all too often results in students not being able to pick out
their _own_ country on a map.

Or a president who can't pronounce "condom" ;-)

The level of knowledge in the rest of the world seems about
right.  It has advantages: We're less likely to be shot at.
[Some American travellers have taken to wearing Canadian
flags or pins.  Less hassle.  Do US Passports/travel
advisories still say "If in trouble, and you can't find
a US embassy, try a British or Canadian one"?  There were
a couple of Americans in Tehran in 1978 who found that
advice quite useful.  Oh, right, you probably don't know
about that.]
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