beerbarrel wrote:

On Sat, 21 May 2005 10:52:19 -0400, dxAce
wrote:



m II wrote:

dxAce wrote:

What is truly amazing is just how utterly fascinated you are with the USA.

I *am* amazed at how we let them influence us to the degree they do. I'd prefer
it if your government wasn't merely a front for corporate interests. If you gave
it any thought at all, you may find it would benefit the fine citizenry of the
US also...but I forget who I am typing to. You think the government can do no
wrong, forgetting completely that they are your SERVANTS, not masters.

Nothing going on in CanaDuh?

Everything is closed for the Holiday weekend. I can't leave the house until the
sidewalks are unrolled again at 12:01 Tuesday morning.

Must be rough... on Holidays here we can go wherever we want.

And, we don't have a Queen.

Once again, more proof that CanaDuh really sucks, bigtime.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


The whole country is nothing but queens!

Ain't that the damn truth.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

m II wrote:

Your envy is showing, Bozo...

Still watching that cartoon stuff? By choice, or are there others in your Health
CanaDuh Group Home that force you to watch it?

Do the others beat you or laugh at you on a regular basis because you're more
retarded than they are?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I met a really cute french girl today here in the US as a matter of
fact....with any luck I'll be screwing her in a couple of hours!

I like the French!
"m II" wrote in message
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Why is the south known as Dixie land?

At a time when businesses did business using pounds, shillings and pence
but the
Portuguese Johannes, the Spanish doubloons and pistols, the French sous
and
picayunes, the Italian and Flemish ducatoons were all circulating and 1
shilling
and 4 pence was one sixth of a milled peso (a piece of eight) or 2
shillings and
a half pence was equal to half a dutch dollar (yes-a very confusing time)
the
Citizens bank of New Orleans issued a straight forward $10 bill, which
became
very popular.

However, because it was New Orleans and there were lots of French people
around,
on the back of the $10 bill they printed the French word for ten which is
“dix”.
These notes became so popular that they became know as “Dixies”.

In 1859 a singer songwriter by the name of Daniel Decatut Emmett wrote a
song
called “Dixie’s land” which became very popular too (see how we used to
get on
so well with the French!!!).

Anyhow, he was a Northerner and presumably because of pronunciation
differences
everyone thought he was singing “Dixie Land” and this is how the South
became
know as Dixie Land – eh Voila!


http://www.skunkworks.webaxxs.net/20...ixie-land.html

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Amazing how the administration has soured feelings toward the French.
Personally, I think they're generally pretty good.



mike

"Ernie" wrote in message
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I met a really cute french girl today here in the US as a matter of
fact....with any luck I'll be screwing her in a couple of hours!

With any luck you'll die of AIDS and decrease the surplus population.

B.H.

"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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"Ernie" wrote in message
...
I met a really cute french girl today here in the US as a matter of
fact....with any luck I'll be screwing her in a couple of hours!

With any luck you'll die of AIDS and decrease the surplus population.

Brian! That's just not like you.

Honus wrote:

"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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"Ernie" wrote in message
...
I met a really cute french girl today here in the US as a matter of
fact....with any luck I'll be screwing her in a couple of hours!

With any luck you'll die of AIDS and decrease the surplus population.

Brian! That's just not like you.

The times they be a changin...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Honus" wrote in message
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"Brian Hill" wrote in message
...

"Ernie" wrote in message
...
I met a really cute french girl today here in the US as a matter of
fact....with any luck I'll be screwing her in a couple of hours!

With any luck you'll die of AIDS and decrease the surplus population.

Brian! That's just not like you.



With all this Star Wars sh-t going on, I feel that I may have slipped to the
dark side. lol!

B.H.

SMHL - As I get older, my favorite Flower
has become the Forget-Me-Not ) ~ RHF
. . . . .

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:

"m II" wrote:

Amazing how the administration has soured feelings toward the French.
Personally, I think they're generally pretty good.



mike

The "Dix" story is apocryphal, and stories abound.

For some reason presently unknown to me (Early onset Alzheimer's, perhaps?),
I was under the impression that the origin of the term came from Messrs.
Mason
and Dixon and their famous survey line.

Apparently the term was not in use until the song.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"RHF" wrote in message
ps.com...
SMHL - As I get older, my favorite Flower
has become the Forget-Me-Not ) ~ RHF

Mine is...ummm....what the hell was that called? (wink)

73,

Steve
--
Steve Lawrence
Burnsville, Minnesota

Every moment of a human life is an act of worship.

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.