Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Todays and yesterdays LUGfest on Americans reminds me of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life skit where Death the Grim Reaper visits dinner party where an American couple are two of the guests (the others are presumably English). If you haven't seen it I can't explain it to you, but everyone enjoy your weekend and eat lots of Salmon Mousse (especially Americans) Jonathan Lee Who has never signed a liver donor card. - -----Original Message----- From: Mueller, Rob [mailto:rob.mueller@eds.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:44 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Americans? but every one of them had to come to the US to get noticed. Rob Mueller - -----Original Message----- From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 5:02 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Americans? > > Most Americans, of course, never think of Canada at all, and I > suppose that > galls Her Majesty's Subjects more than anything else the US could ever do. > > Marc Yes, but we are insidiously infiltrating your country and culture... Ever listen to the news or current affairs, subjecting you to an ever so subliminal Canadian accent from Peter Jennings or Morley Safer? Or how about the influence on the American Way of Life that the great (!!) Canadian actor William Shatner has had on generations of young (and not so young) impressionable "Americans" Then again, those great Canadian cultural exports Pamela Anderson and Shania Twain have taken US culture in directions never dreamed of... Never laugh at Dan Ackroyd (maybe not!) or John Candy or Howie Mandel or Jim Carrey?... all extending that subtle Canadian influence. Do your wives us Elizabeth Arden - ha, another contain. Or on a more serious note, maybe in your youth you listened to a little Leonard Cohen or read some Marshall Macluhan... beware, it could still have an influence over you...REMEMBER, the medium IS the message - and in this case the message is Canadian. need I go on? INSIDIOUS, UNDERGROUND, SUBTLE (?), EVERYWHERE and you don't even know it. And before you do, you will be assimilated... HA HA HA - Dr. Evil (there you go, him and Austin Powers - more Canadians)