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- From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
- Subject: Re: Could be worse (was:
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.004526.18386@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:45:26 GMT
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- In article <lm0l0hINN5oc@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
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- >Canada is the only country in the entire world to ever defeat America
- >more than once (and not by a little bit, either; they whipped our butts).
- >
- >They're also just about the only country in either of the Americas whom
- >we haven't managed to invade (succesfully). We took half of Mexico,
- >we partitioned Columbia, landed marines just about everywhere, and even
- >controlled Cuba, but we've never managed to do anything to Canada.
-
- Uh, not completely true. We've pulled the wool over their eyes once or
- twice. One incident I remember concerned the negotiation of the US/Canadian
- border. We gained some land by conceding to Canada some islands (I believe
- in Lake Superior) that we knew at the time did not exist.
-
- Heh. Nice reliable people, the Canadians. Not too bright, but nice. Just
- the sort you want as neighbors, except for their incipient marital troubles.
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- RNA
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