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From: djrigby@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Darren Rigby)
Subject: Re: The Classic Puzzles
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:44:48 GMT
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In article <E27oFz.95@ladle.demon.co.uk>,
John Hartnup  <slim@ladle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Steven Howard (blore@ibm.net) wrote:
>: In <32ABDE13.2935@smtphost.dur.ac.uk>, Big Mad Drongo <A.G.Jackson@durham.ac.uk> writes:
>: >I for one certainly wouldn't mention the baseball maze in the same
>: >sentence as the Babel Fish dispenser. The difference being that one
>: >of them is a good puzzle, well thought out and very nicely implemented,
>: >and the other one is unpleasant, nasty, and requires you to be American.
>
>: Or Canadian.  Or Japanese.  Or Mexican.  Or Cuban.  Or from any other 
>: country where they play baseball.
>
>Apart from Japan, all the above are in America.
>
>Contrary to anything Dan Quayle may have said, Central America does not
>mean Iowa.
>
>JOhn
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>John Hartnup          | You can drink your weak lemon drink
>slim@ladle.demon.co.uk| now, or you can save it 'til later.
>-----------------------------------------------------------
As a Canadian, I find it insulting to be called an American, simply because
nearly _no_one_ uses the word that way. While technically it's correct, I
don't appreciate it. (And it also irritates me whenever anyone says that
Canada will be part of the States soon.)

-- 
djr={gridby, dart, axoq}
