RE: [Leica] was Friday...poor Bill Grimwood! :(

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Just remember Dave,  if not for the Americans you would be speaking and
writing in German not English.

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From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk [mailto:dmorton@journalist.co.uk]
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Subject: Re: [Leica] was Friday...poor Bill Grimwood! :(


MJS wrote:
> 
> Well, you KNOW what Canadians only admit to each other, that Canada is 
> the
> Great Lost Hope of Western Civilization:  it could have had British
> governance, French culture, and American industry and, instead, ended up
> with French government, American culture, and British industry ....
> 
> And I'm actually working on a book on the Midland Ontario plant with a
> Canadian -- there ARE a couple of dem guyz who still speak to me!

On the sixth day God turned to the angel Gabriel and said, "Today
I am going to create a land called Canada. It will be a land of
outstanding natural beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains
full of mountain goats and eagles, beautifully sparkling lakes
bountiful with carp and trout, forests full of elk and moose,
high cliffs overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea
life, and rivers stocked with salmon."

God continued, "I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the
inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians,
they shall be known as the friendliest people on the Earth."

"But Lord," asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too
generous to these Canadians?"

"Not really," replied God, "just wait and see the neighbors I am
going to give them!"

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