Well, Simply Bob, it's true. Times haven't changed that much since the ole
Dallas days and when was the last time I'd seen you honkin-tonkin?
GRIN
--Manaia
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--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Lesley Robertson <l.a.robertson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> "Robert Melson"
> <melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:RYGdnSBg-_7y4ubVnZ2dnUVZ_qzinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > But we Yanks are not the only ones who suffer from
> parochialism or
> > ignorance or arrogance. Many folks look at Texas as
> being as depicted
> > on "Dallas" and the US, in general, is being
> mired in the Frontier
> > West, with injuns and cavalry ridin' to th'
> rescue, guns blazing and
> > bugles sounding. (Lots of our coastal liberals look
> at the heartland
> > in a similar way, unfortunately, or believe those of
> us in fly-over
> > country are little more than knuckle-dragging
> Neanderthals; again,
> > another topic for a different time and place).
> >
>
> Since I'm a scot, I can identify with that problem....
> To quote from a very old radio programme "We're
> not all Rob Roy, you know".
> ;)
> Lesley Robertson
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