On Dec 3, 2007 5:28 AM, greg emond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my turn to say DOH! shouldve put a smiley at the end of that tirade.... > :) > > i got your humor the first time around, and just answered the same way... > you know, if we cant laugh at ourselves a bit, then we dont deserve to point > a finger at others. I shouldve added thestinky cheese and the underarm > baguette as well...mightve been a bit more obvious.....sorry! > > you know, quebec is just up north of you guys, so dont worry, im exposed > enough not to take offense.....and quebec ladys are quite good looking to > ;) (even though im married to a japanese.....)
japanese are better. hooray for you. > > > cheers, and hope your beer is as good as mine! > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Apology for/explanation of rant, was Re: What do you guys listen > to? :) > > Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:10:47 -0500 > > > > > > On Sunday 02 December 2007, greg emond wrote: > > > > > I am french, and the first joke was very funny. The seond one was... THE > > > truth! I will lift my arms and kill you all with the toxic fumes that > > > emanate from there! vive le quebec libre! > > > > I shouldn't have gone there, but since I did, and since a fair number of > > people really don't seem to get it, I feel I should point out for any > > non-American friends who didn't grasp the irony that the whole rant > > was "acted out" by a stereotypical insular American with no idea what's > going > > on outside this country's borders. It was all a laugh at the worst my > > country has to offer on the world stage, not at anyone outside these > borders > > at all, and most especially not French people. (Je parle français aussi, > mon > > ami, bien que je le parle très mal.) [TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT: I speak > > French too, my friend, though I speak it very badly.] > > > > So anyone in the audience who isn't American should point at us and laugh, > and > > anyone who lives inside these borders should look around and laugh. We're > > not all like that, but some of us really are. > > > > But the whole thing was really a horrible public exhibit of why I spent a > > significant part of my childhood getting beaten up by somebody. Lots of > > people don't get my twisted sense of humor at all, and especially not in > an > > environment where most readers speak English as a second language, and > > haven't spent as many hours as I have watching Monty Python, South Park, > > Carlos Mencia, and weirdly twisted French and Spanish movies. > > > > Sorry about all the noise everybody. I just want to make sure there are no > > hard feelings. > > > > If necessary, I'll call Dad over to come hold my head in the toilet and > get > > one of my kids to take a picture of me getting a good old fashioned > American > > swirly. That is if the old man is strong enough to lift my stereotypically > > overweight American truck driving redneck ass that high. > > -- > > D. Michael McIntyre > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > > ________________________________ > Livres, DVDs, gadgets, musique et bien plus. Magasinez en ligne dès > aujourd'hui avec Sympatico / MSN Magasiner! > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > -- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá luisbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: B0ED1326 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
