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OT Conversations during Turkey Day
I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell,
but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny
country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
Saw the movie
JOhn "mad" wrote in message ... wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
OOOps, It was a play, not a movie
JOhn "mad" wrote in message ... wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
mad wrote:
wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- it was made in the 60's I believe, Peter Sellers played the lead. They came over on the royal yacht and landed in NY I think. "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- -- http://www.kencofish.com Ken Arnold, 401-781-9642 cell 401-225-0556 Importer/Exporter of Goldfish,Koi,rare Predators Shipping to legal states/countries only! Permalon liners, Oase & Supreme Pondmaster pumps Linux (SuSE 8.2) user #329121 Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the sending of this contaminant free message We do concede that a signicant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced ;) |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
mad wrote:
wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- it was made in the 60's I believe, Peter Sellers played the lead. They came over on the royal yacht and landed in NY I think. "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- -- http://www.kencofish.com Ken Arnold, 401-781-9642 cell 401-225-0556 Importer/Exporter of Goldfish,Koi,rare Predators Shipping to legal states/countries only! Permalon liners, Oase & Supreme Pondmaster pumps Linux (SuSE 8.2) user #329121 Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the sending of this contaminant free message We do concede that a signicant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced ;) |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
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mad -- The one thing, more than any other, that the lessons of history teach us is that no one ever learns the lessons that history teaches us. From: "\(\(\(\\\" John Lange" Organization: Starband Communications Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:27:06 GMT Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day OOOps, It was a play, not a movie JOhn "mad" wrote in message ... wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -- "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork". Pearl Bailey From: ~ jan JJsPond.us Organization: Newsfeed.com http://www.newsfeed.com 100,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
Jan, with all due respect to your father (I also have a WWII vet in my
family unit), one point to consider is this (it was addressed in an article about the possibilities for post-war reconstruction in Iraq): Germany & Japan (not sure about S. Korea) were already industrialized countries before WWII; when given aid, they could & did rebuild. I find it difficult to imagine that the same could ever be said of Iraq. (Admittedly, I don't have any statistics to cite about German or Japanese citizens trashing the infrastructures of their own countries to compare with the sabotaged facilities in Iraq.) As for Vietnam, I don't think there were any winners there. I do, however, admire George Aiken from Vermont, who suggested that the US simply "declare victory and leave." Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message ... I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut shell, but..... Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during Turkey Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They got into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a rich country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become the richest country in the middle east. To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam? He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/ ~Keep 'em Defrosted~ Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
To be boringly pedantic about it, the title was "The Mouse That
Roared" by Leonard Wibberley. I believe the book came first, but the story also appeared as a play and a movie starring Peter Sellers. There was even a sequel - "The Mouse on the Moon". PlainBill On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:00:48 -0600, mad wrote: wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad |
OT Conversations during Turkey Day
thanx!
mad -- "Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." Lily Tomlin From: PlainBill Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:26:19 -0700 Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day To be boringly pedantic about it, the title was "The Mouse That Roared" by Leonard Wibberley. I believe the book came first, but the story also appeared as a play and a movie starring Peter Sellers. There was even a sequel - "The Mouse on the Moon". PlainBill On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:00:48 -0600, mad wrote: wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive foriegn aid? mad -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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