JFK

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:26:00 +0100, Martin Hotze
wrote:

ISTR that Germany has still got foreign troops on its soil.

well, this is Germans business. Their treaties might forbid to dismiss foreign
troops. But maybe it is a good deal for the Germans (economical speaking). All
those thousands of soldiers need to spend their money somewhere.

It's better than that. It means that Germany need not field a large
defense force, (I know it has one, but it's not the size of the old
Wehrmacht, I'm sure) and thus spares itself the cost of that force.
Guns 'n' Butter: they're making butter first, and left most of the
guns in the hands of NATO and the U.S.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:14:12 GMT, Philip Sondericker
wrote:

But you'd still know what that non-English speaker was talking about,
wouldn't you? That's why all these posts arguing about whether or not
Kennedy really said "jelly donut" are so silly. Everybody KNEW what he
meant.

Yeah. I said as much in a followup post. Suffice to say I paid a visit
to the "W.C." after typing much of this.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:28:11 +0100, Martin Hotze
wrote:

Robert Perkins wrote:

"Ich bin Berliner" toent richtig. "Ich bin ein
Berliner" hoert sich komisch aus.

IBTD.

Doch! (IMO, natuerlich!)

FTR, an expression like "He went to bat for Charlie and I" also sounds
real funny. Grammatically correct doesn't make it colloquial.
Colloquial doesn't make it grammatically correct.

Rob, will mince languages for food

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

In article gV5ub.221915$HS4.1935369@attbi_s01, "Michael 182"
writes:


He signed the Civil Rights Act 1n 1964. That ranks pretty high on list of
noble deeds.


Yeah, and when he signed it, he said the Democrat Party would *own* the black
vote for the next hundred years. In spite of the fact that the Civil Rights Act
was passed with more Republican support than Democrat.

There is nothing noble about a cynical politcal manuever.



--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

Robert Perkins wrote:

IMO, Kennedy's enemies kept this one alive, probably only to embarrass
him. The Germans forgave him for being American before the word
"Berliner" was fully uttered.

I thought I'd been taught this story to help ameliorate what I do to the
German language.

- Andrew

"Tom S." wrote in message
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"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
...
I think it gets LBJ's stamp. It was no coincidence that flight
operations
were located in Texas.

LBJ, as probably the most corrupt president in our history, had it built
in
Texas to pork barrel his buddies. That is pretty much beyond doubt.

Until JFK died, NASA was building in Massachusetts. One completed building,
in Kendall Square, Cambridge, became a DOT building.

The pork just moved with the Presidency.

-- David Brooks

Comment on postings.

This is the longest thread I've ever seen on r.a.h. It started with me
flying during the event so was on thread for r.a.h.

Don't know if the length is good or bad?

Houston Chronicle has a big spread on front page every day (I'm
assuming they will continue until the 22nd?)

Interesting event in history for those of us who lived at that time
and saw what happened in the media, Congress and every other place.

Big John


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:38:22 -0600, Big John
wrote:

40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.

Big John

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Robert Perkins wrote:

It's a kindness good hearted Germans usually extend to good hearted
visiting foreigners, in my experience, especially the ones that show
solidarity with them.

I found that to be the case when I visited Bavaria. I well remember trying
to
find the tour bus in Bayreuth. My brother and I were half lost, so I
stopped a
young lady in a business suit (how they negotiate cobbled streets in 4"
heels
is beyond me). I excused myself and said in my atrocious accent "Wo ist
die
neuer schloss?"

There are at least three grammatical errors in those five words. Her
eyebrows
went up in astonishment at the butchery I was doing to her language. She
started
to smile, realized that that would be rude, and wiped it away, and then
politely
told me (as near as I can tell) to continue another block, turn left, and
it
would be on the right. I thanked her and we followed her directions. Found
the
bus too.

Should have said "Wo bis der Bahnhof".

ROTFLMAO.

You really have gone off the deep end. I used to actually have a little
respect for you.

Get help...soon.

mike regish

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
ink.net...

"mike regish" wrote in message
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At least they're not from a lack of it.


You are clearly not an intelligent person.

"mike regish" wrote in message
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ROTFLMAO.

You really have gone off the deep end. I used to actually have a little
respect for you.

Get help...soon.


So I've lost the respect of an ignorant fool. I'm okay with that.