Esquire Awards

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

HenryM wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Colin" <thomas_colin at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 3:06 PM
> 
> > >From: "HenryM" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
> >
> > >What is it with the Franco(phono)philes? Very defensive in France and
> > >Canada. Nobody speaks French anymore. Nobody reads French or eats French
> > >Food. Reminds me of the USA South, where they say "The South's Gonna Do
> It
> > >Again." What? Lose? Get over it!
> > >
> > >Keep cool, but care.
> >
> > Thanks, Henry, for proving that the phrase "Keep cool, but care" doesn't
> > mean shit. Must say I'm a bit disappointed with the p-list, here. Strange
> to
> > see that once an (however little) alien element arrives, you tend to react
> > like a bunch of all-american frat boys (I've had the misfortune to meet
> some
> > of them). Humour haw haw haw is sometimes a good excuse.
> 
> Ah, yes. You with your heart on your sleeve care, but don't know the first
> thing about keeping cool. I suggest you turn in any close and even
> mid-distance reading cred you may have had and learn to take a step back
> from your own USA-phobia long enough to read what is actually written, e.g.
> "Nobody speaks French anymore. Nobody reads French or eats French
> Food." Does that appear to be an actual assertion to you? Perhaps it is such
> a heinous phrase that it simply must not be said. After all, the French have
> had such a hard time of it. IMO, it was, at worst, just not the most amusing
> message ever posted to the list.
> 
> BTW, though I am not, never was, and have known very few who are or ever
> were "all-american frat boys," I must defend their honor <apparently I must
> write smirk here>. Those kids can party the pants off anyone. Yeah, baby!
> 
> Keep cool, but care.
> 
> Toujours,
> 
> Mu Cow coming down along the road....

O, Henry will apologise.
Dante said:
--O, if not, the eagle will come and pull out his eyes. 



It is simply the case, imho, that sometimes when a lurker
posts he or in the much too rare occasion she may be
misunderstood. But there is no boys club here, no hostility,
really, it just takes a few posts to get things ironed out.