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

Scott Plante splante at insightsys.com
Mon Aug 12 11:48:29 EDT 2013


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. 

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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