To Kill An American

[Curtis P40]

I'm not a fanatic about anything. I'm just a guy trying to get through life as best as I can, as comfortable as I can, and as trouble free as I can. So, posting something like this isn't me shouting out "Im an American, and damn proud of it!". I've travelled to alot of places in the world, and will continue to do so....because I really like the world and the cultures that go along with it. I consider myself to be a citizen of the world, as corny as that sounds.

Bone, that sums up the way I feel. I to have travel nearly three-quarters of the way around the world. Met and enjoyed many people from vastly different cultures from where I grew up. I think the world would be a boring place if we were all the same. I was born an American, but I belong to the Human Race.
Curt

I must confess, I am a fanatic about...aircraft

 

[Wing_Z]

BS...I don't believe this is a genuine story, not for a moment.
An Australian dentist would not be able to spell "embodiment" correctly.

...The e-mail version differs from the original not only in attribution, but also contains several edits and editorial comments and omits the author's closing paragraphs. ...

Now THAT sounds more like an Australian dentist!
You can see BS from a mile away.

 

[djscoo]

That sort of changes the tone of the story, knowing that it was written by an American. I wonder if the originator of the modified version was just watching "Finding Nemo", and figured the Australian dentist in the film seemed like a really swell guy.

 

[Bone]

It's nice to know who really wrote it, but for me it doesn't really change anything. I like the concept. I like what was done in the Youtube video.

A number of years ago I was reading either Time Magazine or Newsweek...I can't remember which...and the title theme of the issue was "What Will Americans Look Like In 300 years". They had a computer program that took all the races found in the US, and put them through an inter-marriage matrix over the course of 300 years. Computer generated pictures of what the average person would look like after successive inter-marriage mixes, and the end result after 300 years was quite interesting to look at.

Apart from how we are going to look, I hope we have a giant leap in intellect to go along with it.

 

[magoo]

An Australian dentist would not be able to spell "embodiment" correctly.

....He probably dictated it to his receptionist, who was a pretty little Canadian exchange student looking to get on with a group of hunky young American surfers who were renting across the courtyard from her digs.

English spelling wouldn't really be an issue for her, everybody knows it's a language that was invented in Canada. Perhaps that's what really makes America special, that early on folks in the United States quit speaking British, and learned English from the Canadians.

Except for Texas. And maybe New Orleans. Those are totally heterogeneous dialects all of their own.

....and to be proud of.

...Yep.

 

[tonybones2112]

The most dangerous enemy is one you can't incite to anger.

This saying has many variations, most notably in GODFATHER III, my uncle was his company sharpshooter and sniper and when he taught the replacement troops long range shooting with an M-1 Garand, the first thing he told them was, Never hate your enemy.

It affects your aim.

Tony Bones

 

[CADFather]

The most dangerous enemy is one you can't incite to anger.

This saying has many variations, most notably in GODFATHER III, my uncle was his company sharpshooter and sniper and when he taught the replacement troops long range shooting with an M-1 Garand, the first thing he told them was, Never hate your enemy.

It affects your aim.

Tony Bones

That's one of the lessons they still teach at the Army Sniper school in Korea, well at least they were 24 years ago when I attended.

CAD