In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Waugh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Malcolm Cadman wrote:
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>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Waugh
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>> >Nothing personnel Malcolm
>>
>> No problem ... no offensive taken at all.
>>
>> A good discussion, unfortuneatly too OT for the QL list to pursue for
>> long :-)
>>
>> --
>> Malcolm Cadman
>
>What a gentle list this is, I apologise for the OT subject, no excuse
>but we had a rough sort of week.
>Last year on another list (Brit motorcycles, mostly american input) I
>got a little too fired up when some of the good old boys started asking
>for support for their "buy a bullet day", this soon after the mass
>killings at one of their high schools.
>The idea was that if lots of people bought bullets on a particular day
>they could persuade congress that the trade was massive and influence
>decisions to be made.
>I think it was the question I put to them "should the parents of the
>murdered school kids buy the first bullets " that got them really riled.
>I got a friendly and understanding rebuke from the list leader and a
>rather sinister flame from maddog@ someplace or another.
>Been looking over my shoulder for black stretch limos since then.
He .. he .. perhaps you were, may I suggest, just a mite too direct ?
:-)
Wasn't it one of the 'Carry on' teams remarks - 'they don't like it up
'em' ?
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Malcolm Cadman
