At 12:47 3/04/98 +1000, you wrote:
>And my kids thought "madison" was some kind of dance ;-)
>
>Regards,
>Bruce.
>
>Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
>
>Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
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>
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>> From: Andrew Boyd <andrew at pcug.org.au>
>> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [RML] James Madison
>> Date: Friday, 3 April 1998 9:53
>>
>>
>>
>> Hehehe, Bruce, I won't get started on a diatribe (monotribe?) on American
>> cultural imperialism ;)
>>
>> Let's just say that something I learnt very early on was that the then
>> 80%of net bandwidth used by the USA (this was 4-5 years ago when I first
>> left the narrow confines of Fido BBS' to roam the great wide world) was,
>> and is, assumed by many to be 100% ... it's not so bad though, being an
>> Aussie is still a novelty and has it's advantages (the cyberian
>equivalent
>> of the old "What does an Aussie do for foreplay in California? Say G'Day)
>> ;)
>>
>> Cheers, Andrew
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Bruce Hansen wrote:
>>
>> > Dan
>> >
>> > Most Aussies spend just a little more time studying American history
>than
>> > American students spend studying Australian history ;-)
>> >
>> > And I guess that's just about the way it should be :-(
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Bruce.
>> >
>> > Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
>> >
>> > Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > > From: dd at dandrake.com
>> > > To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
>> > > Subject: [RML] James Madison
>> > > Date: Thursday, 2 April 1998 10:47
>> > >
>> > > I hope everyone, including all those uneducated Aussies who probably
>> > never
>> > > spent very many years studying the fine details of American history
>--
>> > > shocking! -- will recognize that my Madison quote was about Alexander
>> > > Hamilton (who really was a bastard brat of a Scots peddler) and meant
>no
>> > > offense to the living Andrew Hamilton, but who can resist a quote
>like
>> > > that on April 1? (which it still is, where I sit)
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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