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To: JC Jaros who wrote (27221)	2/4/2000 4:44:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear JC: So long as its a SUNW server I guess I can live with that. Archie

To: JC Jaros who wrote (27221)	2/5/2000 1:04:00 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Slight correction: >Edit: If we would have given them a McDonalds earlier, they wouldn't have attacked us. :) Not McDonald's but Kentucky Fried Chicken. I am serious. About 10 years ago I was talking to a colleague at the University of Nairobi who was having a group of diplomats visiting from Korea over to his house for dinner. I had been invited along with a few others but could not go due to a previous engagement. Too bad because I only got second hand information about the dinner party: So as to make it a really, really special event, Kentucky Fried Chicken was served. I am not kidding. The wife prepared side dishes but the main event was that KFC. The Korean diplomats were said to have been absolutely delighted. A fellow from Japan asked if he could share a table with me one day while eating lunch in the cafeteria at the Public Records Office (PRO) in London about 15 months ago. Once he found out I was an American, he proceeded to tell me, for the entire lunch, about the year he and his family had spent at the University of Michigan. I learned nothing more about the U of M than I did before, but I know how much KFC that Japanese family ate. Twice a week the family ate there. The husband used to go there for lunch quite a bit as well. From what he said, the Japanese think KFC is dream food. My last example--and I could give more--is from Cairo. There are a lot of U.S. fast food restaurants there. On one corner is a McDonald's beside a Pizza Hut [don't try the seafood pizza], beside a KFC. I did a little survey of people and the way they talked about KFC, one would think they were talking about a fine wine! Yes, people thought McDonald's was great. Indeed, Pizza Hut got a lot of business. But KFC... the best thing to come out of the U.S.A. since the Bill of Rights. I am now of the opinion that the best way to end wars is to arm U.S. soldiers with containers of Kentucky Fried Chicken, not guns. When the foreign hostiles start approaching the trenches in which our soldiers are huddled, all they have to do is attach a bucket of KYC or a value meal to the end of a stick and hold it up. The soldiers on the other side will throw down their weapons and start running to our boys, screaming, "I'll have a Pepsi." "Extra butter for that biscuit." "Who is holding a bag of extra crispy?" Lynn, who does like KFC potato wedges [which taste the same in Cairo as in the States, even though the chicken pieces in non-U.S. countries are smaller]