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Skriven 2004-11-28 16:59:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BJöRN FORSSTRöM
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-=> Quoting Björn Forsström to Frank Scheidt <=-

 BF>> You lost me here.
 
 FS> Actually I've lost *myself* there ...

 BF> Then it can't be easy, eh..?
 
 BF>> That's what we say about the Norwegians.
 BF>> And they are at least 10 to move that ladder.......
 
 FS> And the Norwegians doubtless have a series of "Swedish" jokes ... heh heh
 FS> heh ... "How many Swedes does it take to paint a school
 FS> bus?"  "26 -- one to hold the paint brush and 25 to move the bus
 FS> up-and-down" ...

 BF> Don't think so. they aren't that bright.....
 BF> And how can they be, considering they are making lutfisk.

I've never tasted lutefisk and never intend to but it's a fairly 
popular dish in Minnesota where there are a lot of Scandanavian 
immigrants ... actually the *ancestors* of many of the people in 
that state were the immigrants ...
 
 BF>> See how easy it is to missunderstand when not knowing.
 
 FS> True ... I should take into account that you really *are* from and/or *in*
 FS> Sweden.  I've been dealing with FidoNet for over a couple of decades and
 FS> have run into all sorts of people pretending to be one thing.  However
 FS> they always trip themselves up eventually.

 BF> Que?
 BF> Am I not pretending or what?
 
Good question ... are you?

 BF>> I could have called you a real bastard for calling your troops Enlisted
 BF>> Swein but
 BF>> instead I asked and now it isn't a problem.
 
 FS> I've been called worse ...

 BF> :-)
 
 BF>> And I based my opinion of what I saw.
 
 FS> Apparently the TV *you* saw didn't show as much as I saw -- and heard.

 BF> That might be but then you have to inform me.....
 
 FS>> I keep an open mind on *everything* ... even on the fact that you might
 FS>> not be from Sweden at all ...

 BF> If you don't trust my word, what else can I do?

Just keep talking ...
 
 BF>> With my name I'm more likely to come from Sweden then Scheidt is to come
 BF>> from USA. Sounds like German to me.
 
 FS> Good guess, in that my parents were both born in Germany.  OTOH there
 FS> really *is* no such thing as an "American" name since this is largely a
 FS> nation of immigrants ... even the Indians (aborigines) migrated from Asia
 FS> thousands of years ago.

 BF> I more like names as Goodyear aso.
 
 FS> BTW, I had a friend in college many years ago named Yalti Einarson (I'm
 FS> no-longer sure of the spelling) who came from Iceland.  He told me if I
 FS> ever went to Reykjavik, Iceland, to phone his father who could contact
 FS> him.  I asked if his father spoke good English.  He said his father didn't
 FS> know *any* English ... so if I *had* gone there it would have been an
 FS> interesting conversation since *I* don't know any Danish ... heh heh heh
 FS> ...

 BF> It's the same here. I only speek Swedish and German so don't bother to
 BF> come to Sweden eiter.
 
The odds are *extremely* great that I'll never come to Sweden ... 
not that I wouldn't like to ...

 FS> There's a great deal of difference.  The Vietnam War proved to be
 FS> basically a *civil* war with north fighting south.  We had no business
 FS> there.  Saddam Hussein was financing terrorists in Palestine and there's
 FS> no reason to believe he wasn't financing *other* terrorists as well.  And,
 FS> of course, there was the intelligence information, which was proved false,
 FS> which indicated he had weapons of mass-destruction ...

 BF> I see your point and find it nice chatting with you, on the contrary
 BF> to others....

People are on FidoNet for different reasons -- some to 
communicate and learn, others to agitate ... I've done both in 
various echoes ... heh heh heh ...
 
 BF>> Even Bush have said that bin Laden had nothing to do with Iraq.
 
 FS> True, but this is a "war" on *terrorists*, not just on bin Laden.

 BF> I know, but this war must never the less be fought in the right way or
 BF> you loose
 BF> the support from others.
 
Unfortunately we've already *lost* much support.  However 
terrorists awakened this nation when they bombed the World Trade 
Center buildings.  We're willing and capable of going it alone. 

 FS> Actually I *don't* believe only what I want to believe.  There are a *lot*
 FS> of things I believe which I wish I *didn't* believe. For example, if that
 FS> Marine really *did* commit a war crime I'd want him punished
 FS> appropriately.  However from what I read and saw and *heard* on that tape
 FS> he did the proper thing.  The investigation will determine if he did or
 FS> not.

 BF> Sure, I fully agree.
 
 FS> BTW, your "new-Nazis" are called "neo-Nazis" ... "neo", of course, *means*
 FS> "new" ...

 BF> Whatever, they are still bastards.
 BF> And do you know, a few ot 'em was even voted into council in
 BF> Trollhättan, the town where SAAB is made but I think they are gone by
 BF> now. How stupid can one be?

Neo-Nazis make little headway in the U.S.  They're ridiculed by 
99% (probably more) of the nation.  

... Cats often chase things that their person can't see.

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