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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (4374)	3/20/2002 3:01:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

<If you live in the hood, the smart thing to do is to just get out of the way, climb a tree, hide. There is no reasoning with this pit bull. Wait him out. He will soon tire. So Maurice, how is that for the zen of politics? > Ramsey that's an excellent story apart from the missing apostrophe. <...can't take the pit bulls dominance anymore...> Also, the pit bull has another friend: herald.co.nz Mqurice PS: <There is no reasoning with this pit bull. Wait him out. He will soon tire.> With MTV generation X and Y attention spans measured in parts of seconds, I suspect boredom will soon set in and the latest Jerry Springer/Oprah show will captivate people. A little while ago, GeorgeW made some comment about "I won't get tired". I couldn't imagine Winston Churchill saying that. It struck me that it was like saying "I will get tired; in fact, I'm sick of it now".

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (4374)	3/20/2002 7:03:44 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12247

Maurice, I don't think Ramsey had NZ in mind for the Bulldog. Ramsey, who's the poodle? The bulldog I think Ramsey is thinking of is past its prime and slow, but lazy? The British had their SAS their at the beginning, used their cruise missiles, and are refuelling US planes. They took over in the role of peacekeeping - a thankless job at the best of times, and almost hopeless in Afghanistan. Now they're sending another 1700 marines - in the Cold War their job was to defend Norway, so they are trained in mountain warfare. Hopefully the pitbull will listen to the old bulldog who's been scratched badly a number of times down the years by all sorts of adversaries. Flailing gives short-term satisfaction, but a certain degree of stoicism is necessary. Perhaps it was a mosquito attack, rather than a cat. There are two things not to do: scratch at the site of infection, or carpet the region with DDT. One leads to a nasty infection, much worse than the bite, that saps the body directly; and the other destroys the ecosystem with unpredictable consequences.