Re: OT Conversations during Turkey Day

o k.
mad
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The one thing, more than any other, that the lessons of history teach us is
that no one ever learns the lessons that history teaches us.

> From: "><\(\(\(\\\"> John Lange"
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> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:27:06 GMT
> Subject: Re: OT Conversations during Turkey Day
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> OOOps, It was a play, not a movie
> 
> JOhn ><>
> 
> "mad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> wasn't there a book/movie called 'the mouse that roared' about a tiny
>> country that declared war on the u s just so they'd lose and receive
> foriegn
>> aid?
>> mad
>> -- 
>> "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork".
>> Pearl Bailey
>> 
>>> From: ~ jan  JJsPond.us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:39 -0800
>>> Subject: OT Conversations during Turkey Day
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>>> I'm sure someone can tear down this light-hearted history in a nut
> shell,
>>> but.....
>>> 
>>> Interesting conversation that I could hear from the kitchen during
> Turkey
>>> Day. My dad's teaches English to Agricultural Japanese students. They
> got
>>> into a conversation about America always going to war. To which my dad
>>> said, the countries we go to war with always come out ahead. We beat
>>> Germany and now they are a rich country. We beat Japan, they became a
> rich
>>> country, S.Korea, ditto and when we're done with Iraq they will become
> the
>>> richest country in the middle east.
>>> 
>>> To which the Japanese student said, but what about Vietnam?
>>> 
>>> He said, We didn't win that war. ;o)~ jan
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