>>>OTOH, look how much more civilised the canucks are for having had the British influence for a few more centuries! :-)
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>>Yeah, kind of like a guy who lived in his parent's basement until he was 40 <g>
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>But a very ORDERLY basement, very clean, aseptically so. So ... so ... so ... so ... clean, AND tidy. Did I say "orderly" too?. Yes, orderly!
Yeah, but there is always something lurking ... a desire to burn insects with a magnifying glass, a compulsive twitch, hockey ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
