Absurdity This Week In America
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I also mentioned hotels. You didn't answer that part of the question! What about hotels that display an array of flags outside their front entrance?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
What about hotels that display an array of flags outside their front entrance?
There's no problem displaying foreign flags. There is a problem when foreign flags are placed above the American flag. Can you name any hotels that do otherwise in the US?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Didn't you see any of her TV shows, or worse, "Wax Museum"?
No, I haven't. Maybe I should :-)
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Maybe I should
No...You shouldn't.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
It's Gandhi. Ghand is Hindi for buttocks. :-D
I see a lot of Americans mis-spell it. But most Europeans get it right. I wonder why!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Ghandi
It's Gandhi. Ghand is Hindi for buttocks. :-D Cheers, Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either. Militant Agnostic
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Shog9 wrote:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Sorry, thought you were being ironic. :)
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You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong?
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ :rolleyes: Regards, Nish
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi.
Does it really matter as long as she acts well? Regards, Nish
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look Nish, just 'cuz you get a woody every time you see her doesn't qualify her for acting. ('cept maybe in your bedroom.) ---sig---
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look Nish, just 'cuz you get a woody every time you see her doesn't qualify her for acting. ('cept maybe in your bedroom.)
:laugh: Regards, Nish
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Sorry, thought you were being ironic. :)
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Shog9 wrote:
Sorry, thought you were being ironic.
I wasn't, though maybe I should have been! Regards, Nish
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hmm, like people outside of America get everything right about America? Gimme a break, xenophobist! ---sig---
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Shog9 wrote:
Sorry, thought you were being ironic.
I wasn't, though maybe I should have been! Regards, Nish
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Alvaro Mendez wrote:
For example, every time I see someone walking into a Mexican restaurant, I yell at them to go live in Mexico if they like that food so much.
So you don't eat French fries because they are Belgian (they are not French :) )? And you don't eat Hot Dogs because they are German? You don't eat Pizza because they are Italian? You don't eat Rice because they are Asian? And you don't eat Hamburger? :) Well what do you eat, when you don't eat something from other cultures? ;) Greetings, Ingo ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
ihoecken wrote:
And you don't eat Hamburger?
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg). :)
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong?
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ :rolleyes: Regards, Nish
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Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out. :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
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ihoecken wrote:
So you don't eat French fries because they are Belgian (they are not French )? And you don't eat Hot Dogs because they are German? You don't eat Pizza because they are Italian? You don't eat Rice because they are Asian? And you don't eat Hamburger? Well what do you eat, when you don't eat something from other cultures?
Damn straight! I only American foods: Turkey, Corn, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Biscuits, and of course, Apple Pie. :-) Alvaro
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Alvaro Mendez wrote:
Damn straight! I only American foods
English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer 1381. Turkey is North American in origin, but is it really fair to credit America for the idea of eating fowl meat? Especially for a bird that is named for its presence in Europe through importing to Turkey, thus crediting Turkey for the origin of the bird. People ariving in the Americas thought it was an African bird the African Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) and this is why Turkey is credited with the bird, not the Americas where it originated. Corn is actually a generic term for any fruit of a grain, the correct term is actually Maize, if you are referring specifically to the north american "corn on the cob" or its fruit once removed. A cornfield could be a field of wheat, rye, oats or another grain. Mashed potato (mashed potatoes in American English) or puréed potato is a common way of serving potato in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. But even closer to the subject at hand... corn, if you prefer the term, is actually a hybrid domestication of several wild grains, origin... Mexico. "The process is thought by some to have started from 7,500 to 12,000 years ago (corrected for solar variations). Archaeological remains of early maize cobs, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, date back roughly 6,250 years (corrected; 3450 BC, uncorrected); the oldest cobs from caves near Tehuacan, Puebla, date ca. 2750 BC Little change occurred in cob form until ca. 1100 BC when great changes appeared in cobs from Mexican caves: maize diversity rapidly increased and archaeological teosinte was first deposited." Maize began spreading to the rest of the land in the Americas sometime near 1500BC. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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ihoecken wrote:
And you don't eat Hamburger?
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg). :)
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg).
"The hamburger as ground meat can be traced back to the time when the Mongols (c. 1209) carried flat patties of lamb or mutton as a food source. The saddle would tenderize the meat and the meat would be eaten raw. It gave the Mongols the ability to carry food, and eat it all without dismounting from the horse. When the Mongols invaded Moscow, the hamburger was also brought and in turn was adopted as a cruisine named "steak tartare" after the invading Mongols (who were also known as the Tatars). Later the German port of Hamburg had ships that visited a Russian port and thus brought with it the new "tartare steak" as they would later call it. Ships from Hamburg, Germany coincidently shipped to New York also and brought by now was known as the Hamburg steak." _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 13:58 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg).
"The hamburger as ground meat can be traced back to the time when the Mongols (c. 1209) carried flat patties of lamb or mutton as a food source. The saddle would tenderize the meat and the meat would be eaten raw. It gave the Mongols the ability to carry food, and eat it all without dismounting from the horse. When the Mongols invaded Moscow, the hamburger was also brought and in turn was adopted as a cruisine named "steak tartare" after the invading Mongols (who were also known as the Tatars). Later the German port of Hamburg had ships that visited a Russian port and thus brought with it the new "tartare steak" as they would later call it. Ships from Hamburg, Germany coincidently shipped to New York also and brought by now was known as the Hamburg steak." _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 13:58 Wednesday 5th April, 2006
"Food's origins cannot be attributed to humanity as the concept actually dates back hundreds of millions of years. For example, Germans proudly assert their invention of the sausage, but in fact pork products have been around since the triassic when the ancestor of the modern pig, the allocite, scurried along the hot desert plains of pangaea. The first allocite was consumed by a small carnivore named the composaur, in what is now upstate New York, thus making all pork products and their derivatives a distincly American food."
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Gandhi may have helped India get freedom, but he's no Jesus Christ
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out. :-D I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Dave
DRHuff wrote:
Give it a couple of thousand years - you never can tell how these things will turn out.
Good point :) Regards, Nish
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