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Nowdays, a small town is connected to the world....
(embrace change!)Wise and beautiful, o pelopenesian princess 
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Dear of troy: Most talk about the good old days is bovine grass nutrients. I remember seeing cemeteries with rows of tiny stones telling of several children dying in one week, probably of diphtheria. Of reading of such things as Teddy Roosevelt's father dying after two weeks agony from an intestinal problem that could probably been cured by today's surgery. If such a well to do man died like that, think of the multitude of poor ones who also did. Childhood always seems wonderful in retrospect "Make me a child again, just for tonight."
I just wish some freedoms had not been taken away for such loathsome reasons. Schools with barbed wire on top of chainlink fence,and parks closed at night because of druggies. Dentists having to wear rubber gloves because of AIDS.Old values discarded, with no worthwhile replacements.
These are not "some of my favorite things." Actually I think I have been very lucky to have had the best of the old days, and the benefits of progress so far.
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Also wisdom, Dr B. OK, the revised creed now reads: Embrace change (but wear gloves)
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my new sig line: Embrace change (but wear gloves)Thank you Mav! We have a winner! 
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the Northener in a way that would be perfectly accepted at Harvard interrupted the Virginian to save time
Well, I was going to let this one go by, but I had to come back. How unutterably rude that guy was! It is my unshakable opinion that you owe people the respect of listening to what they have to say, unless there are extenuating circumstances. GRR-RR!
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How unutterably rude that guy was!
Oh, dear! Now I have a cultural clash with dear Jackie! Jackie, perhaps I should have explained that after a long careful briefing of the Virginian patent attorney, he had completely misunderstood several important points, and was in his best FFV languid manner going way off on a tangent, at about twenty bucks a minute. In that situation, a delay in ensuring mutual comprehension would have been disastrous. I can assure you that the young man who interrupted the Virginian was very well brought up by two highly cultured professors. And the Virginian was more than a bit of a windbag, but was in the position of having few competitors.This was not a social occasion, it was business, and la-di-da manners have no place in business. Common courtesy yes, but comprehension delayed, no.
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IF this is a YART, sorry, I've been away for a long time. To me the best-known and currently most controversial semantic warfare about wars is taking place in Japanese history textbooks. What the rest of the world knows as the Nanjing Massacre is officially recognised as the 'Nanjing Incident'. ..as for that war where the US and Britain parted ways, I've never understood why the British don't celebrate 4 July as much as the Americans 
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" I've never understood why the British don't celebrate 4 July as much as the Americans "
They don't need to, they have sent a lot of very fine people over to help us celebrate.
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Bridget has never understood why the British don't celebrate 4 July as much as the Americans
As your King George III said so eloquently in his diary for July 4, 1776, "Nothing important happened today".
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As your King George III said so eloquently in his diary for July 4, 1776, "Nothing important happened today".
Not surprising. No instant communication in 1776.
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