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Skriven 2006-03-29 07:49:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
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-=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 FS>>   That's one reason why they hate America so.  Actually I feel very
 FS>> sorry for them and express it by instructing them in simple ways --
 FS>> ways they might be capable of understanding ... so far I've not been
 FS>> very successful ... [sigh] ...
 
 RW>> That's because they're so dense, it will take them a decade or more
 RW>> to figure it out.

I hope I'm around on The Day of Revelation.  That will be an 
exciting time!
 
 FS>> I started out by suggesting they might show a little gratitude
 FS>> for the many things the US has done for them during the past
 FS>> century.  This puzzles them, and we're off on the wrong foot.
 FS>> They seem not to study history hence aren't aware of the great
 FS>> debt they owe us ... sad ... but one moves on ...
 
 RW>> I see that you've raised the ire of a 'frog' with this comment.
 RW>> Let's just say that, given 230 years of history, the frogs owe us a
 RW>> great deal more grattitude than we owe them.
 
 FS> True, a Frog (and I prefer the more polite capitalized 'F' since
 FS> the Frogs *are* a type of human being -- I think)

 RW> News to me.
 
It was in the paper a week or so ago ... "'Frogs Found To Be 
Human' Report"

 FS>  has responded. He apparently doesn't know much about french history
 FS> ... uh French history.

 RW> If he did, he'd know that the Frogs haven't ever won a war by
 RW> themselves...
 
If he *did*, yes ... [sigh] ...

 FS> First things first:  They "helped" us during the American
 FS> Revolution for one reason only -- to harm the British. The French
 FS> and British had been at war on-and-off for *centuries* by then.

 RW> They sorta won the Hundred Year's War, but famine and desease beat
 RW> them and they lost part of France to; guess who!
 
Probably to an English-speaking adversary ...

 FS> The French figured even though the British colonists couldn't
 FS> help them (the Frogs) much, they *could* bother the British a
 FS> bit.  With this in mind they "helped" us.

 RW> Sure.
 
 FS> Second:  The Frogs who helped us were under the command of a
 FS> *Monarchist*.  The French threw out the Monarchists in an
 FS> excessively bloody revolution shortly after our own humane
 FS> revolution.  Hence if we owed anyone (and we *don't*) it would be
 FS> to the French Monarchy, not to the Fourth Reich or whatever the
 FS> current Frog gummint calls itself.

 RW> I think an Emporer was in-between there someplace. Nepolian comes to
 RW> mind.
 
Yeah, Napoleon (a Corsican by birth, not a Frenchman) shook 'em 
up a bit.

 FS> I hope this clarifies the situation -- and all without hurting
 FS> the delicate feelings of any Frogs.

 RW> They have feelings too?

Good point.  I don't know the answer to that.

... "It's ... ... ... my ... ... ...  SHIP ... ... ... !" ÄÄ Kirk

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