How the world sees the USA and why

[Roger Baker]

[We have above what is known in cyberspace as "thread drift"
wherein a post topic drifts far away from its original subject 
title and takes out on its own, which is cool enough, but begs
for a subject title update.]

BTAIM (be that as it may), here is a sample of other netspeak
peculiarities in the form of net shorthand which will not yet be 
understood by most and can therefore prove useful for purposes 
of net snobbery and snickery. 

asaik=as far as I know
awhfy=are we having fun yet?
cm=call me
dyr?=do you remember
fwiw=for what its worth
gal=get a life
gmta=great minds think alike
ianal=I am not a lawyer but...

and so on in like manner through all the other well-worn cliches down through the alphabet.

But meanwhile in conclusion, and so as to seem a little more class to the post, I append a quotation that is practically unknown, but profoundly true
from one of my favorite books that explains why the tribal apes have made such a mess of managing the world, with equivalent barbarity to all the untamed savagery and awesome slaughter among evildoers that is the bread and butter of the Old Testiment of the Bible -- but now assisted with all the accumulated and applied scientific talent dedicated to the complete mastery and domination of nature. -- Roger

 
"As for pointing to our mental failures with scorn or
dismay, we might as well profess disappointment with
the mechanics of gravity or the laws of
thermodynamics. In other words, the degree of
disillusionment we feel in response to any particular
human behavior is the precise measure of our ignorance
of its evolutionary and genetic origins."

 Reg Morrison -- "The Spirit in the Gene" 



Jim Strong wrote:

>Branf em on bub. Sound like the makins" for a good
>coffee table book for the barn.
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>Billy Jim
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>--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
>
>>Jim Bob.
>>
>>Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute.  Don't start
>>telling me
>>ole-boy-in-High School stories!  Otherwise, I will
>>just have to recall
>>Ernest & Emory Goethe who ran the Walston Purina
>>feed store down by the MKT
>>railroad station in Georgetown.  Ernest married one
>>of the Palm sisters and
>>Emory, well Emory sort of went "the other way." 
>>Still for a 6-4" 300# guy
>>he was remarkably nice. At least nobody messed with
>>him. Ernest and Ida Palm
>>produced two sons, Martin Heidegger Bob and Lionel
>>Feininger Bob who later
>>became enamored of Hollywood and ran off to
>>California never to be seen
>>again.  Martin Bob drove a really cool chopped &
>>channeled green Mercury
>>coupe with an awesome chromed Caddy engine.  Willy
>>Bob was more into
>>bicycles which he built from old tractor parts. 
>>Ever seen a 900# bicycle?
>>There was also a sister who looked like a cross
>>between Marilyn Monroe and
>>Kim Novak.  I was madly in love with her as was the
>>football team.  Oh,
>>well.  I was the one who helped her past, er pass
>>algebra.  The old Goethe
>>feed store now contains a Crown Book, a Victoria's
>>Secrets and a Starbucks
>>but many in Georgetown say that is progress.  Many
>>in Georgetown can now
>>spell progress if you spot them the "p"s ,"r"s and
>>"s"s.
>>
>>More tales of mythic central Texas of the '40s and
>>'50s to follow if you are
>>not careful.
>>
>>Freddie G. Williamson, UCWCT
>>
>>(Unofficial Chronicler of Williamson County, Texas.)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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