G'day David,

Friday February 14 1997 22:38, David Read wrote to Gaelyne Gasson:

 DR> Hi Gaylene

 Er, it's Gaelyne.

 GG>> When I told her about motorbike delivery and commented about
 GG>> how efficient it is, I knew I'd blown it for her.  Her whole
 GG>> image of US World Domination was shattered and she never
 GG>> spoke to me again.
 DR>
 DR> Most septics have a larger-than-life view of their universe...kinda
 DR> like the Kiwi map of the world I saw recently.

 Uh-huh.  I like to mail them postcards showing the world as we see it
 - with Australia at the top.  :-)

 DR> We copy a lot of stuff from them, unfortunately that did not extend
 DR> to their fierce sense of national pride :( Try putting their mother
 DR> country down within earshot and see what happens.

Oh, so THAT's why I had so few people at the airport to see me off.
(I immigrated here from Septic land in December).  Currently, you can
still say whatever you want about the place and I'll not be insulted.
For some reason I wasn't born with that fierce sense of national
pride in the "motherland", mainly because my family originally came
from Denmark.

1/3 of the Danes pissed off to USA and the other third went to
Australia. I reckon my genes got mixed up and I shoulda been here to
begin with.

Cheers,
Gaelyne

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