Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 01:48, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] when parking goes free. Gotta plug meters on the street between 8AM-6PM every day except legal holidays. Thank God Sunday is still a legal holiday in the US. Yeah, he's the one to thank. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Well, this statement is going to be controversial, but one type of redneck lives in a 95% white culture, and one type lives in a roughly 50-50% white-black culture. Not that you implied

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-17 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:23:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I don't get where you're going with this... Merely commenting on a fact. Look at a census for the NW US and Canada sometime. Let's /thread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:33:38PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:49:24AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: [snip] It's just that (unless you're a pseudodruid) there's maybe 10 minutes worth of interest in it. A lot of

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:38:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I'd say if you really want to go for the overpowering, stereotypical southerner, go to Idaho. Replace wife-beaters with flannel and an Albertan accent instead of a southern drawl. I saw more than one GEO Metro with a gun rack in

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:01:48PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: snip Albertan accent instead of a southern drawl. I saw more than one GEO Metro with a gun rack in Couer d'Alane. Coeur d´Alene, that is... ;-) It's French... Hugo.

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:17:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +, Pigeon wrote: (the average distance a tourist moves from their car is 300 yds or some such number). Just far enough to get to a

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:14:56PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: The wife-beater white undershirt is not a phenotype I saw much of -- that's more of a New York Italian stereotype. In the South it's usually a black t-shirt with a picture of a wolf on

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:23:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Coeur d?Alene, that is... ;-) It's French... The Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada don't claim French as a major language (even if it is an official language for southwestern

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:25:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: Same here. Especially given that the Lake District is *made* for walking, and trying to drive there in the tourist season is a painful experience - very narrow roads, flanked by drystone walls

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:30:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Ah, then we have another type of redneck: South by Northwest. Southern drawl white trailer trash that somehow made it to the northwest. Most famous example would be Tanya Harding's most recent ex-husband. Well, this statement is

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:50:41PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:36:33PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: Personally I find this request unreasonable. Not unlike if Germans ask everyone not to mention Nazi's

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:49:24AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: But surely it would be far better to build the replica in America and save them all the hassle of a long plane flight! The food would be familiar. There could even be stonehenge-east

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +, Pigeon wrote: (the average distance a tourist moves from their car is 300 yds or some such number). Just far enough to get to a public toilet... I never understood this. I usually try to find some

RE: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: snip A humble request: could everybody be more consciencous about dropping offensive terms like KKK. The cognitive processes preceding such an utterance disturb me. Being from the South, I am really sensitive about

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Lajos Mester
how about /thread ?? no flame, no war. Just Debian, please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:28:36AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
Did someone say Legoes! Now that they are dumping the mindstrom legos, they want to focus on JUST LEGOS! ask them to build a lego stonehenge (actual size!) x-) Already done, but not in original size: http://www.x-brick.de/legoland/windsor/stonehenge.jpg joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance!

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:01:48PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: I'm from the South (USA) as well, and I'm _not_ very sensitive about it. There _are_ inbred, pointy-headed biggots in the South. But only idiots think all people from the South

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent most of my

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Dave Howorth
Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Dave Howorth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... But surely it would be far better to build the replica in America and save them all the hassle of a long plane flight! The food would be familiar. There could even be stonehenge-east in say Atlantic City and stonehenge-west at Disneyland.

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Scarletdown
Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Dave Howorth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... But surely it would be far better to build the replica in America and save them all the hassle of a long plane flight! The food would be familiar. There could even be stonehenge-east in say Atlantic City and stonehenge-west

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:49:24AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:49:24AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: [snip] It's just that (unless you're a pseudodruid) there's maybe 10 minutes worth of interest in it. A lot of big stones in a rather bleak field miles from anywhere, and

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -, Jim Higson wrote: And then there's the people (mostly American) standing around filming the stones with their camcorder - huh? Long before everyone was walking around like retarded idiots, paying attention

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:36:33PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: Personally I find this request unreasonable. Not unlike if Germans ask everyone not to mention Nazi's ever again. Um,

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Jim Higson
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent most of my visit playing Sonic2 on a RedHat laptop. And then there's

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! No, the presentation, the limitation of access, suck. Stonehenge itself is a truly strange monument - try sleeping overnight in the back of your car within

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread David P James
On January 13, 2004 14:12, Deryk Barker wrote: ... My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning. Firstly the real Druids did *not* build Stonehenge and

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Jim Higson
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stonehenge sucks! No, the presentation, the limitation of access, suck. Stonehenge itself is a truly

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning. Firstly the real Druids did *not* build Stonehenge

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On January 13, 2004 14:12, Deryk Barker wrote: ... My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning.

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in Caesar) to prance about there on

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:28:51PM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [snip] These present day idiots in their KKK-style outfits have no more right to special treatment at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny. Actually rather less. While I agree

RE: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Matthew Joyce
-Original Message- From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 2:41 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:28:51PM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [snip

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: Personally I find this request unreasonable. Not unlike if Germans ask everyone not to mention Nazi's ever again. Um, duh, Godwin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread Andy Gayton
Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:46PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: Personally I find this request unreasonable. Not unlike if Germans ask everyone not to mention Nazi's ever again. Um, duh, Godwin? hehe - for those like me who thought wtf!?: