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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (46312)2/15/2004 7:47:13 PM
From: tom pope  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Maurice, you seem to be an interesting fellow, and I would probably enjoy a round of golf with you if golf weren't so distressingly proletarian (I used to play it before it became proletarian and golfers became unabidable beer guzzling ruffians). But you have totally misunderstood the appropriateness of humor in this context. I've always thought that NZ'ers were somewhat English in their reasonable approach to life and understood that there is a time and a place for everything. You should understand that Americans do not think that any joke remotely connected with 9/11 is funny, and, quite frankly, I agree with them. To Americans of whatever political stripe jokes about 9/11 are not comparable to a Castrol sales meeting, and the fact that you seem to find an equivalence shows daft insensitivity.

I thought it was ridiculous when National Guardsmen were stationed in airports as if there was a credible threat of armed attack against a domestic U.S. Facility. But what I was trying to suggest to you that security types are not chosen from the pool of people who are looking for jobs where satire is not taken seriously. Your msg inviting Al Q types to contact you was not at all smart if you ever thought of coming to the United States for a visit or whatever.

On the other hand, if you have not intention of visiting our fair shores, fire away. We have thick skins.

I'm very sorry about your son, and what he had to endure. But how did that address Zeta's post?
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