RE: rooting for the Americans

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 17:05:38 MST


Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Oh, well, that must mean it's okay. Is Australia going to sit idly by
> with every terrorist attack so long as the terrorists apologize
> afterwards for those Australians who died as collateral
> damage? I mean,
> to them, I am sure it is difficult to tell the difference between
> Aussies and Yanks. We all look alike, and I'm sure they can't tell the
> dialects apart. I'll even bet that there are t-shirt makers in Dubai
> selling like hotcakes a design that says to the effect of "Yanks,
> Aussies, Brits, Kiwis? !@#% it, kill 'em all and let Allah sort them
> out." So long as they apologize afterward, I'm sure it will be all
> right.

I don't know about that, but I do know that there have been, for a long
time, t-shirts that say "I am not an American", in several languages.
Australian and Canadian tourists are big fans of them, afaik. Now I bet
*they* are selling like hotcakes right now.

I think I'd like a t-shirt that says "Also human".

Emlyn

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