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Re: Addressing Francophobia

by John D Salt <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> May 18, 2008 at 03:46 AM

Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:m7PXj.87033$y05.21959@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> John D Salt wrote:
[Snips]
>> because of the malign influence of ketchup.  Can anyone find a way of
>> blaming the pernicious habit of putting vinegar on chips for the
>> decline of the British Empire?
> I'd blame that on Christianity. The Romans did much better as pagans
> when they respected tribal religious traditions.

I don't see how you can blame Christianity for malt vinegar abuse.  The 
only specifically Christian foodstuffs I can think of are bread, wine, 
and chocolate eggs, all of which I heartily approve of, but none of which 
would go well on chips.  

Given the strength of traditional British cuisine in strong-flavour dark-
brown substances, I can't help feeling that the British Empire might 
still be alive today if only someone had contrived to devise, say, a 
spatterable liquid form of Patum Peperium as a chip-dressing.  But one 
never knows if HM Imperial Food Scientists would have chosen the right 
brown substance; something based on Lea & Perrin's would maybe have been 
all right, but one runs a terrible risk of Marmite.  Perhaps the twiglet 
is the failed remnant of what was once hoped to be the safwguard of 
Imperial snacking. 

> The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the President and ratified by the US 
> senate says:"The United States is not a Christian Nation." This
> allowed US interests to be pursued in the Islamic world very
> successfully. The American empire continued to expand until Christians
> took over control of the government and tried to apply Christian
> values. eg, on abortion.

We seem to have wandered quite a long way off the topic of what 
imperialists put on their chips.  If there is any connection between 
abortion and tomato ketchup, I don't want to hear about it.
 
>> 20% above the 95th percentile.  Wow. I bet eveyone got higher than
>> the median score, right?
> Not everyone, but when you look at the school re****ts of these small 
> hill towns, they AVERAGE from the 55th to the 65th. Most of the really
> dumb **** methheads moved to the city where the welfare benefits were 
> more generous, and they didnt havta chop firewood.

I see that your statistical irony filters are 55% more badly clogged than 
the anchovy filters at Prince Albert's tank in Elsenham.

A Golden Gokmop Point to anyone except Andrew Pearson who can point out 
the callback, and a further point for identifying the connection with 
Buddhism.

All the best,

John.
 




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Addressing Francophobia
Ilya the Bat <ibshamba  2008-05-05 19:59:03 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
Immortalist <reanimate  2008-05-05 22:45:12 
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"rone" <^*&#  2008-05-05 23:17:42 
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Mark Edwards <Mark-Edw  2008-05-06 05:13:38 
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chazwin <chazwyman@[EM  2008-05-06 00:14:34 
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ZerkonX <Z@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-06 11:31:42 
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Mark Edwards <Mark-Edw  2008-05-06 08:34:40 
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BretCahill@[EMAIL PROTECT  2008-05-06 21:23:05 
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"^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-07 02:04:19 
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norbu.tragri@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-07 03:42:56 
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"^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-07 10:06:38 
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norbu.tragri@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-08 05:32:16 
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"Tzortzakakis Dimitr  2008-05-08 16:49:57 
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"^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-08 09:59:20 
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norbu.tragri@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-09 05:22:59 
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oTTo <derottobahn@[EMA  2008-05-09 13:26:02 
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dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D  2008-05-09 13:11:08 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
Ilya the Bat <ibshamba  2008-05-11 21:45:14 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
Day Brown <daybrown@[E  2008-05-12 22:25:36 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
ibshambat@[EMAIL PROTECTE  2008-05-14 04:54:41 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
Day Brown <daybrown@[E  2008-05-17 10:19:22 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
John D Salt <jdsalt_AT  2008-05-17 10:35:14 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
Day Brown <daybrown@[E  2008-05-18 00:22:26 
Re: Addressing Francophobia
John D Salt <jdsalt_AT  2008-05-18 03:46:51 

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