Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20000421022509.19039.00002739@ng-fh1.aol.com>,
Regnirps <regnirps@aol.com> wrote:
 
> Roy and/or Janet Miller millers@inetnebr.com wrote:
> 
>> Regnirps wrote:
> 
>>>  or as we say, a prisoner up in the Third World of Canadanistan.
> 
>> Charles, are you a "northern neighbor"?
> 
> No, I live (as the Alaskans say) down in the USA.
> 
>> Paul was mentioning the european idea that Americans seem to forget that
>> they aren't the world, and I was gonna say that that was because we were
>> a country the size of a continent, and then I remembered the REAL
>> arrogance of Americans... forgetting that Canada isn't part of the USA.
>> LOL. Oh well....
> 
> Well, I just remembered that the whole thing started when Paul brought up the
> American Religious Right so I think it was fair to talk in terms of US
> politics. I lot of Europeans think we think that way.
 
A fair number of you do -- after all the Religious Right is stronger in
the US than in any European country.  You'll have to go to countries
with islamic governments to find a significantly stronger religious
fundamentalism.
 
But of course ALL americans aren't like that!  You're a big country
with big differences between different parts of the country.  In New
York City, for instance, I'd expect religious fundamentalism to be no
stronger than in any European city.
 
> Maybe because they watch so much American TV
 
Well, when you export so much TV you'll also export an image
of your cuntry - what else did you expect?
 
> and so many American movies they are too busy to notice how many of
> the World's travelers are from the USA.
 
I notice a fair share of them in Stockholm.  Seems like most
americans have a dream of going to Europe, just like most europeans
have a dream of going to the US.  The grass is always greener on the
other side of the pond.... :-)
 
> I also wonder if they understand how independent the States are?
 
Well we know THAT!  Some states have captal punishment (Texas is the
leader there, right?) while others dont.  Some states have fairly (to
american standards) strict gun laws while others have very little gun
restrictions.  Sometimes I wonder why you ever became united
states....
 
> All they see on TV is LA and New York with some Baywatch Hawaii and
> San Francisco thrown in. You don't see much on TV about how things
> like the law and dialect change from place to place.  Hollywood has
> a basic fake southern/western/country accent and that is about it.
> I have NEVER heard on TV those wonderfull melodic southern women's
> voices I get when I phone companies in Atlanta.
 
I saw the film "Bridges of Madison County" on TV the other week.
It was neither from NYC nor from LA, SF or Hawaii.....
 
And my son loves "South Park".
 
BTW it would be interesting to hear the typical american's
impression of TV and film from outside the US.  Any impression
at all?
 
> I saw "Canadanistan" in an editorial cartoon and I liked it. It's
> that third world socialist country of the great white north with
> severe gun control, national health care with waiting lists, and
> full of Canadanistanians who insist on speaking in their strange
> tongue.
 
You got it backwards -- YOU are the one having a strange tongue,
not them.... :-)
 
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