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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 08:18:32 EDT 2013


As a "Born Southern", I view it as the time a bare majority forced first
through economic strangulation then finally outright war a repugnant
minority practice to change or die. The change is not complete even 100+
years later.
On Aug 10, 2013 7:59 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> I reckon that the born southern and Black might have a slightly different
> view of the civil war.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> well amongst the born Southern, the Civil War was referred to as "the
>> recent unpleasantness".
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 06:22 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
>>
>> 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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