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Subject:Re: Them Yanks ...
Date:Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:26:50 -0400
From:"Greg Evans" <misterx@larkbooks.com>
Newsgroups:alt.humor,rec.humor
David Simpson wrote:

>>> Americans, far from being a bunch of loud mouthed, obnoxious, gun
>>> toting, xenophobic, narrow minded, petty, insecure, paranoid, self
>>> righteous, lazy, indolent, junk food eating, culture despising,
>>> fascistic, maniacal, sister marrying, deer hunting, beauty
>>> conscious, health fadding, nuclear proliferating, blueberry pie
>>> eating, sports obsessed, war mongering, ignorant, bigoted,
>>> cultureless, poltroons who piss openly in the street and spread
>>> filth, stupidity and their own peculiar brand of wholesome
>>> sanitized Christian hatred into each and every Coca Cola Big Mac
>>> litter infested corner of this planet, are in fact a peace loving
>>> nation full of fine upstanding people.
>> That doesn't make us bad people !
>
> True you're just a bunch of loud mouthed, obnoxious, gun
> toting, xenophobic, narrow minded, petty, insecure, paranoid, self
> righteous, lazy, indolent, junk food eating, culture despising,
> fascistic, maniacal, sister marrying, deer hunting, beauty
> conscious, health fadding, nuclear proliferating, blueberry pie
> eating, sports obsessed, war mongering, ignorant, bigoted,
> cultureless, poltroons who piss openly in the street and spread
> filth, stupidity and their own peculiar brand of wholesome
> sanitized Christian hatred into each and every Coca Cola Big Mac
> litter infested corner of this planet.

We're also good at noticing deja vu.

Greg
and I have a sneaking suspicion that the original writer wouldn't have known
about the word "poltroon" but for one of those decadent Porky Pig cartoons