Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry I had to jump in this: My family came to Texas in 1824, GGGF Harrison fought with Andrew Jackson in Battle of New Orleans; two Harrisons died in the Alamo;; jh ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ == Member of Mensa since 1985,,,uh I think - -----Original Message----- From: Harrison McClary <hmcclary@earthlink.net> To: Walter S Delesandri <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 10:39 PM Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] Freedom of speech and political correctness (off topic) >Sunday, Sunday, January 10, 1999, Walter S Delesandri wrote: > > >> Thanks for the post, Mikiro. >> As for the standard on the LUG, I propose Texas :) > >For the non US citizens, and those Americans who do not know their >history...Texas was a country at one point and is the only state to >join the union through treaty. > >But as I often remind those arrogant Texans (BIG GRIN HERE) if it was >not for Tennessee there would not be a Texas. Who was yer first >President, Sam Houston, former governor of Tennessee and raised by >Tennessee Cherokee Indians (who by the way were the ONLY "American" >indians to develop their own alphabet). Who was the hero of the Alamo? >Davy Crockett...Tennessean and member of the US Congress representing >Tennessee before he went off to Texas to git himself kilt. > >Ya'll just a bunch of copycats with a lot of dust. ;) > >Harrison >http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto >preview my book: http://www.volmania.com >mailto:hmcclary@earthlink.net > > >