RD: No it hasn't. If NA covers as far south as Panama, where the
hell is
Central America? Brazil?
Central America is part of North America. It's not a separate
continent unto itself.
C'mon man, we all know you guys want to rule the world, but
GEOGRAPHICALLY
speaking, NA stops at the southern border of the USA and CA starts
there.
Sorry, but Mexico was never part of Central America, and even if it
were it would still be part of the North American continent.
The Caribbean islands are a separate geographical entity and I
don't hear
any Caribbeans calling themselves American.
Sure they do. They are members of the Organization of American States
(except for Cuba, which would like to be) and all part of the
Americas. Admittedly English speaking Caribbean people rarely call
themselves "Americans," but Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans are
unquestionably "americanos."
You guys in the USA and Canada are North Americans (and the only
North
Americans) until you can come up with a better description.
Well, my whole point is that there is no unambiguous name in English
either for US citizens or for the people of the US and Canada
considered together.
Well, my whole point is that there is no unambiguous name in English
either for US citizens or for the people of the US and Canada
considered together.
enough! as Din quite rightly said, you are all bastards anyway!
I say toss out the political correctness and simply use the term
"yank" to describe everyone from over there. At least we know who we
are talking about (and for practical purposes heh heh, isn't Canada
just another state of the US anyway?
Its the same with the aussies and kiwis, usually the kiwis get lumped
in with the aussies, sure it upsets them and upsets us but at least
other people know which part of the world they must be from.
Which is all we are trying to do here (aren't we?). Bring in the
semantics and we will never stop.
And yes there are only 7 continents. Try telling that to the Middle
East, Central Europe, South East Asia etc etc you get the idea. If you
keep going, you never stop (hah hah stands to reason that!).
Finally, if this upsets anyone, you are really taking yourself way too
seriously! Then again, we are pretty laid back down under, I guess it
aint everyone's cup of tea! Though we do get annoyed when we go
overseas and people think we are Brits hah hah! (always amazes me that
as Brits never get above 5 feet tall and aussies are all 6 footers!).
Back to middle earth, death and destruction to the DS in g58! Mordor
must be bloody crowded, what with the WK, Rhu, Harad and Drag all now
cowering away in there! (thats assuming you even bothered saving
them!).
From hence forth, I suggest anyone taking offence to the term
Yank, go by the rightfully earned term of:
Generic Offspring of North American Descendants or
G.O.N.A.D.s for short.
Besides, being a Texan, y'all all look and talk funny to me.
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Stagoll [mailto:john.stagoll@airservices.gov.au]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:40 PM
To: mepbmlist
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Re: Turns
Sensitivity: Confidential
Well, my whole point is that there is no unambiguous name in English
either for US citizens or for the people of the US and Canada
considered together.
enough! as Din quite rightly said, you are all bastards anyway!
I say toss out the political correctness and simply use the term
"yank" to describe everyone from over there. At least we know who we
are talking about (and for practical purposes heh heh, isn't Canada
just another state of the US anyway?
Its the same with the aussies and kiwis, usually the kiwis get lumped
in with the aussies, sure it upsets them and upsets us but at least
other people know which part of the world they must be from.
Which is all we are trying to do here (aren't we?). Bring in the
semantics and we will never stop.
And yes there are only 7 continents. Try telling that to the Middle
East, Central Europe, South East Asia etc etc you get the idea. If you
keep going, you never stop (hah hah stands to reason that!).
Finally, if this upsets anyone, you are really taking yourself way too
seriously! Then again, we are pretty laid back down under, I guess it
aint everyone's cup of tea! Though we do get annoyed when we go
overseas and people think we are Brits hah hah! (always amazes me that
as Brits never get above 5 feet tall and aussies are all 6 footers!).
Back to middle earth, death and destruction to the DS in g58! Mordor
must be bloody crowded, what with the WK, Rhu, Harad and Drag all now
cowering away in there! (thats assuming you even bothered saving
them!).
If you guys want to prattle on about what country is Welshkin or Scotswomen
driven or what a plagurizing loser Thomas Edison was or some other useless
drivel either:
1) please write OFF TOPIC in the header so my email system can delete it
and better yet
2) take the topic off list.
'Nuff said... by a tired man who has to pay money to download his email
which contains this tripe!
Lovely insights, thank you! We're having a hard time adjusting to the
'international bully' image these days ourselves. And like you Brits back
then, we've earned it.
Get used to it. With Dubya in the White House (note I didn't say, "In
charge"), things are going to get much worse on the international and
diplomatic fronts.
If you guys want to prattle on about what country is Welshkin or Scotswomen
driven or what a plagurizing loser Thomas Edison was or some other useless
drivel either:
1) please write OFF TOPIC in the header so my email system can delete it
and better yet
2) take the topic off list.
'Nuff said... by a tired man who has to pay money to download his email
which contains this tripe!
We have a winner in the "Who'll crack first?" Sweepstakes!
Collect your prize from Clint or Sam at the next PBM Con.
Greetings from the peaceful "Dark Servants" of game 65.
We call all neutral nations to contact us to arrange for mutually beneficial
arrangements.
Currently our small mountainous Shangri-La (named Mordor by the greedy and
despotic 'Free Peoples') is under assault by vast armies and we only seek to
defend ourselves. Our member states outside of Shangri-La have come under
unprovoked attack in their very homes.
Neutral nations, recognise the terrible deeds being carried out by these
'Free Peoples'. Contact us via this address and aid us in our plight!
Thats ok. Bubba Clinton made sure the people we'll have the problems with ahve
the Capability of landing Nukes on us.
Gavinwj wrote:
···
G. W. Tallen wrote:
> Lovely insights, thank you! We're having a hard time adjusting to the
> 'international bully' image these days ourselves. And like you Brits back
> then, we've earned it.
Get used to it. With Dubya in the White House (note I didn't say, "In
charge"), things are going to get much worse on the international and
diplomatic fronts.
I believe that this message appears if you try to conjure more than
the limit of 5 mounts per point of Mage rank. By your note I would
infer that your mage has a skill of 44. In order to conjure 245
mounts you need a rank of 49.
btw, I could be wrong since it has been several months since I
triggered this message, but the above is the reason for its occurence
in my case...
Chris
--- In mepbmlist@y..., Eric Blische <eric@a...> wrote:
Last turn in one of my games (FA-1000), I tried to
conjure 245 mounts and received a message I never saw before:
"She was ordered to cast a conjuring spell. Conjure Mounts was
cast. There were insufficient Mounts available to conjure. 220
All right, there you go again, why do you want to start this stuff?
Can't be worse than what Clinton and company have done, but I have no hope
of convincing you of this so I'll let it drop. Maybe someday you'll wise
up.
> Lovely insights, thank you! We're having a hard time adjusting to the
> 'international bully' image these days ourselves. And like you Brits
back
> then, we've earned it.
Get used to it. With Dubya in the White House (note I didn't say, "In
charge"), things are going to get much worse on the international and
diplomatic fronts.
