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Let's celebrate the progress of our enlightened civilization by bringing together the family and disemboweling some birds! 3 now playing: ambient computer fan noise + hard disk click --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bell Ex-One" <stepintime@juno.com> To: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 3:14 PM Subject: (idm) gobble gobble gobble gobble, gobble gobble, gobble gobble gobble, gobble.

quoted 1 line happy thanksgiving!

> happy thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was six weeks ago, depending on where you live. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Superfuzz wrote:

quoted 3 lines happy thanksgiving!

> > happy thanksgiving! > > Thanksgiving was six weeks ago, depending on where you live.

Or doesn't exist at *all* if you don't live in North America. Not to point fingers, but it really amazes me how insular people can be when it comes to stuff like this. Americans are particularily notorious for this sort of thing, but I've seen similar attitudes in people from other countries as well (including right here in Canada): the assumption that everything in the rest of the world is exactly like it is at home, so doing something like sending out greetings regarding an American holiday to an international forum seems totally normal to them. I once had a discussion with a U.S. resident who couldn't understand why we didn't celebrate the 4th of July in Canada. I then told him that we have a 1st of July holiday instead, and that just confused him even further. Sigh. Greg -- Greg Clow - greg@stainedproductions.com - http://www.stainedproductions.com - feedback monitor - electronic & experimental radio/reviews/interviews - - http://www.stainedproductions.com/feedback/ - - Dead Voices On Air & Not Breathing - December 22nd - Reverb - Toronto - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 18 lines happy thanksgiving!

> > > happy thanksgiving! > > > > Thanksgiving was six weeks ago, depending on where you live. > > Or doesn't exist at *all* if you don't live in North America. > > Not to point fingers, but it really amazes me how insular people can be > when it comes to stuff like this. Americans are particularily notorious > for this sort of thing, but I've seen similar attitudes in people from > other countries as well (including right here in Canada): the assumption > that everything in the rest of the world is exactly like it is at home, so > doing something like sending out greetings regarding an American holiday > to an international forum seems totally normal to them. > > I once had a discussion with a U.S. resident who couldn't understand why > we didn't celebrate the 4th of July in Canada. I then told him that we > have a 1st of July holiday instead, and that just confused him even > further. Sigh.

Try explaining to them that it's summer in Australia right now. Er, or about to be. Er, for various values of "summer". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Greg Clow wrote:

quoted 8 lines Not to point fingers, but it really amazes me how insular people can

> Not to point fingers, but it really amazes me how insular people can > be when it comes to stuff like this. Americans are particularily > notorious for this sort of thing, but I've seen similar attitudes in > people from other countries as well (including right here in Canada): > the assumption that everything in the rest of the world is exactly > like it is at home, so doing something like sending out greetings > regarding an American holiday to an international forum seems totally > normal to them.

well, i've seen this thread come up nine billion times, and i suppose i still don't get it. i wouldn't get upset if i were accidentally wished a happy guy fawkes day, or queen margerethe's birthday, or bastille day, or chinese new year, or whatever. i suppose that the deal behind it is that americans think they own the planet so they always say happy thanksgiving or fourth of july to everybody else who doesn't care. i say, rest of the world, start sending messages to mailing lists wishing the whole planet a happy whatever local holiday you want. the americans will probably pick up a little multiculturalism at least. * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# icq: 5562209 never been closer to heaven/never been further away --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 6 lines -----Original Message-----

> -----Original Message----- > From: laerm [mailto:laerm@voicenet.com] > i say, rest of the world, start sending > messages to mailing lists wishing the whole planet a happy whatever local > holiday you want. the americans will probably pick up a little > multiculturalism at least.

The new track is complete, the lasagne is in the microwave, and the beer is flowing, so let's turn the sounds up and annoy the neighbours :| Happy Lasagne day everyone! Apologies to those outside of a small village in Buckinghamshire, England who may not have heard about this event yet. You have know, so be prepared. AndyM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Just have to make one quick vent of my many years of sourness about the extent of cultural imperialism in this lovely wee world... I've never done so before in 5 years (on and off) of mailing list activity, so bear with me. :) It blows me away the way "domestic release" on this list is equivelant to "US release". Many's the time while I was in the UK I wanted to announce the domestic release of the latest Warp offering, months before Matador or whoever had picked it up in the States. Jeez, "US release" is even shorter to type. Grr grr. And, yes, here in New Zealand ("Like, is that in Scandinavia?" "Somewhere near Boston?" "Just off the coast of Australia?" bah... my backpacking experiences) Summer's round the corner. But Irene can keep her complaints of the heat to herself for a while yet. ;) Back to thislisty stuff (for me :) Michael ^ Hear some Jet Jaguar http://mp3.com/jetjaguar/ ^ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Michael Upton wrote:

quoted 2 lines Jeez, "US release" is even shorter to type. Grr grr.

> Jeez, "US release" is even shorter to type. Grr grr. >

Well, it's not _our_ fault that we're the only civilized nation in the world. I mean.. we invented crack cocaine. So just back off. - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu " The ball is round. The game lasts ninety minutes. This much is fact. Everything else is just theory. " --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Americans in the UK ... - "Yeh yeh, we've got one of them back home, except its BETTER" - "Shoot, I can't use dollars here? Why not??" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Mate, I'm English. Ross. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dominick Winters <worldrecords@hotmail.com> To: idm <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 2:58 PM Subject: Re: (idm) gobble gobble gobble gobble, gobble gobble, gobble gobble gobble, gobble.

quoted 11 lines Americans in the UK ...

> Americans in the UK ... > > - "Yeh yeh, we've got one of them back home, except its BETTER" > - "Shoot, I can't use dollars here? Why not??" > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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At 12:23 AM 11/27/99 +0800, John wrote:

quoted 5 lines Aren't jokes this old considered off topic?

> >Aren't jokes this old considered off topic? > >How bout dem Mets >

How dare you discuss an American sport on this list? You ethnocentric culture fascist. - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu " The ball is round. The game lasts ninety 90 minutes. This much is fact. Everything else is just theory." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org