Subject: Wasp's nest
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 96 10:31:00 EST



 My point of tea and cake was, actually, Andrew, a serious one, since there 
was a certain kind of elite SL woman who, denied a career, poured her 
creative skills into cookery. While my question may have  implied a certain 
levity, I had no wish to use a quote from  someone else without attributing 
the source. As I have not heard  any claims re a  prior source, I shall 
proceed to use it as the title of my paper
I also  seem to have stirred up quite a wasp's nest over my defence of our 
Prime Minister, which I do not resile from. (Yes, Cath, Jon, Ned, et al,  I 
am one of  many  Asian-Australians who  want  a future for our children and 
could not see that happening under a Labour Government. Most of us are 
perplexed  by those who wish to ignore the fact that the majority of 
Australians , yes, Ned, the *majority*  voted Coalition and no, I am, in 
fact, quite advanced in years, and therefore unimpressed by the kind of 
mediocrity displayed in Government for the past 13 years.)
 I also apologise for my "vitriol" though I prefer to think of it as 
pickling vinegar.
 Re.  what the touring Australians may or may not be called by the crowd in 
SL , I believe  verbal abuse  of the kind Jon refers to is more likely to be 
scatological  or the ubiquituous reference to female relatives, rather than 
political slogans.  Have you ever stood in a crowd at the Colombo match, Jon 
?  I assure the shouts, even when the match is played against caucasians, is 
not political, sorry to deflate your theories, and no, you shouldn't believe 
all you hear from  the media.
 If we did we may have believed the greatness of Paul 'Placido' Keating. 
 Tina 


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