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To: Binder who wrote (164)	6/21/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: Moonglow	Respond to of 341

Well I agree about basketball and Iowa! I mean, who CARES!!! You know why Jesus Christ was never born in Iowa, don't you? It's because in the whole state God couldn't find a wise man or a virgin! And since I'm in a bitchy mood this morning, I think I'd like to complain about Canadians and why they fool people. To my ears, the speech of the Canadians sound exactly like the speech of somebody from the northern states of the U.S. I can't tell the difference. And I want to complain about that. I mean, if someone is from Finland, for example, I can tell from their speech that they are from a different country. But Canadians? Can I tell that they are from a different country? NOooooo. So why do they think they have to go around fooling everyone like that? Now when I go to Canada, I don't fool them. I mean all I have to do is to open my mouth and say, "y'all" and they know right away that I am not Canadian. And I don't think it's fair that children in the U.S. are not taught as much about Canadian history as the children in Canada are taught about U.S. history. I mean, when I was in school, I thought that the history of Canada ended with Benedict Arnold. Well, there was one more little blurb about some slogan called "54-40 or fight", but it seemed more like a Presidential election slogan rather than Canadian history. And I also think that the people of Quebec should speak Spanish! I mean, we have bilingual signs in English and Spanish. Why can't it be the same in Canada? Why do I have to go there and read bilingual signs in French and English? That's not fair! Because I can kind of loosely understand what things mean in Spanish, but I don't even begin to understand French! And while we're on the subject of different countries....I would also like to complain about Russia, China, Japan and the Middle East. I mean why did they have to have a different alphabetic system than most of the rest of the world? I mean the alphabet with 26 symbols is SOOO EASYY!!!! What's all this crap with all these thousands of little picture symbols? And Russia really irritates me. They have the Cyrillic alphabet, which have some symbols similiar to the alphabet that we use, but those symbols mean totally different things. Talk about fooling people! And Japanese wouldn't be hard to learn at all if they used the same alphabet that we use. But I don't draw well anyway, so how in the heck am I supposed to learn to draw a whole new language? Juanita

To: Binder who wrote (164)	6/21/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: dan oreilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 341

Juanita: I have a complaint to add to your canadian complaints. last night I went into Baltimore{pronounced Balmer} to watch the baseball game. The Oreos were playin the Toronto team. Wellll it seems the politically correct thing to do when playin a "canadian" team is sing BOTH anthems before the game. So NOW ya have 50 thousand people standin mumblin the words to TWO anthems instead of one. A tradition at a Balmer game is for all the "local" to sing the O at the oh say can ya see part REAL LOUD. From lookin at the crowd I would bet that that is the ONLY time most of the couples there hit the big O at the same time....tho I did hear quiet a few guys hit the O first.

To: Binder who wrote (164)	6/21/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: dacoola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 341

As poorly-qualified as I am to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim that it would be more productive for Binder to take a more diplomatic and conciliatory approach, I hope you will bear with me while I begin this sincere and earnest attempt. And please don't get mad with me if, in doing so, I must find the common ground that enables others to make Binder's irritable modes of thought understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on Binder's pranks. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, the worst sorts of pugnacious porn stars I've ever seen and people of similar psychological type are often inspired by Binder's litanies. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that Binder easily impresses her proxies using big words like "abdominohysterectomy".