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

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

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. Maybe because they watch
so much American TV and so many American movies they are too busy to notice how
many of the World's travelers are from the USA. I also wonder if they
understand how independent the States are? 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 "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.

Charlie Springer