>You might get a kick out of this and I apologize if it is not appropriate.
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>A friend of mine Hugo Schneider is from Berlin, Germany, and moved to the United States many years ago. He was in the market for a home in Augusta, Georgia and had an interesting conversation with the real-estate agent.
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>Real-estate agent: “Mr. Schneider, we southerners have something in common with Germans”!
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>Hugo: “What is that”?
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>Real-estate agent: “We both lost the war”!
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>It seems funny but perhaps not to everyone.
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>Tom

Since I didn't fight in either of those wars, I really don't have any stake in them. That means I can laugh about them. For those who fought in them, or suffered because of them, they have a problem laughing. I used to drink coffee with a man named Saul Stein every morning, and he was a really neat man. But, he had nothing but antipathy for the Germans. You see he had been incarcerated in one of the prison camps during WWII. I had bought a Mercedes for my wife and was telling him how much I liked the car when I found out how much he disliked them. Guess you can't blame him though.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. You have to have a sense of humor to live in the South! But even so, I'd rather live than most places- cept maybe somewhere in the Rockies.

John