Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:02:21 +0000
From: mokey <higginsc-AT-tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Fantasy Island and Mr Rourke 



oh i get it, fantasy island.  yes i do remember that program, and as a
monster fan of eighties teevee then i guess i should have got the
reference.  was that the program with the little midget?

but no, onto more serious matters.

Jerald wrote this nonsense:

>I understood Goat's comment differently. I thought he meant that if 
>Colin really believes that there  will be peace in Ireland any time 
>soon, then he is living in his own little fantasy world (island).  

and i must contend that that's the sort of defeatist attitude that led to
thirty years of violence.  i remember, during the troubles, that whenever
people even suggested that there could be a temporary peace they were
laughed at.  it was only when brave men (no, in fact, mostly John Hume) set
out to prove the sceptics wrong that we acheive something.

"i mean man, with all those positive waves, maybe we can't lose"
Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes.

colin