File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9809, message 48


Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 18:26:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Why Throw Americans Out of Middle East... by Taliban


Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good.  That's the price for environments
which promote intellectual creativity.

Piali Roy wrote:

> It's these kind of arguments that make email lists sometimes too much to
> bear. D. Butz did originally write:
>
> >On a more hopeful note... Happy Labour Day to all!
>
> I have a funny feeling that's everyone!  Sigh. :)
>
> Piali
>
> >Yes, but you were wishing citizens of the U.S. a happy "Labour Day."  You know
> >that saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"?  I would not call one of
> those
> >British political parties the "Labor Party," because that is not how the
> British
> >spell it.  If you are wishing citizens of the U.S. a happy Labor Day, please at
> >least have the courtesy to spell it the way we do here.
> >
> >Thank you so much for your consideration.
> >
> >David Butz wrote:
> >
> >> Not up here in Canada... unless our working class has become more
> >> Americanised than I thought (or is tha AmericaniZed?).
> >>
> >> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Bruce Hagood wrote:
> >>
> >> > Sorry to impose, but it is spelled "Labor" Day!  :)
> >> >
> >> > David Butz wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Xaviar... I'm with you right up to "the Americans had no choice but to
> >> > > retaliate"... will the American's fanaticism be their undoing too?
> Lots of
> >> > > undoing needing to be done!
> >> > >
> >> > > On a more hopeful note... Happy Labour Day to all!
> >> > >
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