Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT: National stereotypes. Was Re: Naming conventions. Was: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:16:05 +0200 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <93vj30Fks7U1@mid.individual.net> References: <9303hcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> <6787e80d-9ea8-45ab-b09a-0c5a670beaaa@p13g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4dd3a529$0$12156$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda2828$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda8ddc$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net v1T3nIDMrIOEwc5+eQF+Cgz2NxQ4Yrvbx51xkW2wQeESVIdQg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uEytZ7KJbsBQm3AeaP/0qI0I95s= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4dda8ddc$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110523-1, 23.05.2011), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4473 On 23.05.2011 18:39, RedGrittyBrick wrote: > On 23/05/2011 16:27, Steve Sobol wrote: >> In article<4dda2828$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>, RedGrittyBrick >> says... >> >>>>> You wag! >>>> >>>> I am, in fact, not British, nor do I recognize >>>> any monarch as having authority over me, save the butterfly. >>>> >>> >>> Bless. Next you'll be suggesting it is possible to be "from the US" and >>> not recognise the authority of the pope. >> >> No. I'll suggest that. I'm Jewish-American. I have friends and family >> members that are Mormon and Baptist. None of us view the Pope as an >> authority figure, at least not one we answer to. :) >> > > To recap: > > RK: Lew is from UK. > Lew: I am not from UK, nor am I a zylophone. > RGB: That's silly! Here's an equally silly example. See? > SS: Did you seriously mean that silly thing? LOL Now that I read this sub thread I am really glad I misplaced Lew. :-)) Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/