Re: (TFT) Americans and history, Duh!

["John Paul Bakshoian" <shadowhex@hotmail.com>]

Who says we're hysterically illiterate?

I've read the Red Book of Westmarch.  I know our history!

FRODO LIVES!!!

[Stan, I was very entertained by your history.]

JPB


> From: stan rydzewski <srydzews@ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Americans and history, Duh!
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:34:31 -0400
>
> grabowski wrote:
> >
> > Seth stated,
> >
> > <<<Americans are historical illiterates>>>
> >
> > Now don't generalize, Seth.  Remember the United States won a
> > war against Great Britain to keep ourselves that way.
>
> Yeah!  We didn't fight all those guys in the war of 1912 for
> nothing!  I mean, if it weren't for Franklin Roosevelt and the
> Toughriders charging down San Juan hill at those limeys, we'd
> be speaking Gaelic today!  And what about Captain John Paul
> Jones?  Before he became pope, he was a famous captain in our
> navy--sunk some British battleship called the Derriere.  As he
> said when asked to surrender the Batogne, his famous frigate:
> "Nuts!  I've barely begun the fight, and now the trick is to
> make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Stan  "Remember the What-amo?" Rydzewski
>
> (Sorry for the off-topic-ness; I couldn't help myself.)

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