Word has it that on 13 Nov 2001 09:52:55 +0000, in this august forum, Ingvar the Grey < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it said: Yes! Let's bring back the 60s and 70s and blatantly hetersexual entertainment like, say Monty Python . Let's do that! Yay! Yes indeed. Not to mention It ain't half hot Mum , Are you being served & all those other epitomes of butch heterosexuality that have been cunningly forced off the air by the Gay Mafia! My name's Julian, and this is my friend, Sandy. Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it infamy. One recently-deceased comic genius who will be sorely missed.#

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it writes: So the Belgians are still fair game ? DR&H. If you want a fight, it won't be fair. <ducks back into trench ISTR that in Belgium jokes are usually aimed at the Dutch or Swiss. Feel free to s/Belgians/Whatever/ as appropriate.

The big difference there is that the bus is an extremely *immediate* danger. My understanding is that one's 'soul' is rescueable right up to the last minute of one's life, so there is no such urgency. Depends on the sect I think.  There's always been a lot of argument But but but the bus is something which everyone can see! And know! And understand! And point at, and grab, and poke, and drive (within licensing and experience constraints), and kick, and throw things at, and and...

out of debating the point. If they didn't throw me out, I used to eat their food. I was going to say you're a cat, but it seems you're a Raccoon-dog.

[0] According to an ex-colleague who has the tour jacket to prove it, Mr. Hasselhoff enjoys a flourishing career in Germany as a rock star, going on the road with the kind of show more commonly associated with Pink Floyd. boggle< Well, what did you expect from a people without culture? Ok, that might seem harsh, but I've grown up in Germany (as a German), so I have first-hand experience. Every movie, every TV show is dubbed (yes, even Knight Rider - you haven't seen *how* bad KR is if you haven't seen the dubbed version). *The* kind of music selling best there actually makes C&W look good. Some areas of cultural heritage are more or less taboo in large parts of the population just because a certain regime in a certain time liked it[0]. Wagner for instance. And while we're bashing Knight Rider, what about Babewatch? It's also a show for the same audience - male (whoa, BOOBS!), mushy and compassionate (now isn't that a cute kid) (and I don't mean the car this time) and attracted by motorized power (whoa, jetskis!) (whoa big honking trucks powersliding on the beach!). Gah, William Shatner should also do a concert tour in Germany. They like incompetent people, to hide their own incompetence[1]. Michael

In < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , on 11/15/2001    at 08:47 AM, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (Suresh Ramasubramanian) said: I have this horrible feeling I've fallen for an old, old, joke ... The joke was old and Common, but in its day it was Golden. Just don't let Franz hear it Michael