George Sellios' layout

Finally !

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And a good thought. Now, how do you determine if these freelanced miniature railways are "model railroads" in the scope of your definition as it pertains to the hobby of playing with toy trains. I don't mean that in any disparaging way, but say it that way because I can't think of any other way to say it on the fly. I don't want to use the term "model" because I don't mean "model" the way you define it in this message. You are correct, but it creates a semantic problem for a little while.

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..and but for Uncle Stupid you'd be speaking Japanese.

If Ronnie's Roadhouse is your benchmark then that is haute cuisine indeed.

Payback is a bitch, but what do you mean by that remark here? Payback who for what?

Nope. This is a urban legend. It contravenes international law. Exported products can only be marked with country of origin.

No one would be stupid enough to do this because no custom inspector would allow it through.

Eric

Larry Blanchard wrote:

And, yes, the Japanese did manufacture products for export stamped "MADE IN USA".

Non, je suis loco, mon ami !

..........Le Grenouille>

Anglo Canadians, for decades of social and economic slights.

Of course they went overboard once they got their act together, but what else is new?

You live in a whiskey glass piloted by mice!??

Paul

That would be "because of Uncle Stupid, we were nearly speaking Japanese". Without us, you'd be speaking German.

Uncle Stupid can barely speak English - what makes you think he could teach Japanese?

Freeow! Belgium, man!

That's interesting. I wasn't aware that others outside of Dixie objected to the term.

I especially didn't realize that Yanke........uh, I mean New Englanders, objected to it.

I guess parochial isn't restricted to Dixie, although we did get a big dose of it.

I heard a story once about a woman who was insisting that her children were New Englanders. She had written the editor of "New England" magazine regarding an earlier piece on "native" New Englanders. She maintained that although she had lived in New England for 55 years, she was not born in New England, and was thus willing to concede that she was not a "native" New Englander. Her children were, she maintained, since they were born in Massachusetts. The Editor replied: "Madam, just because your cat has her kittens in the oven, that does not make them biscuits."

WOW ! Now that is hard-nosed........................F>

Except for a few people who insist that USA = Usa, Japan, or that America = North America.

You can please all the people some of the time; you can please all the people some of the time; but you can't please all the people all the time. With apologies to A. Lincoln.

Jay CNS&M Wireheads of the world, unite!

W H A T ???

Anglo-Canadians? What other kind is there other than Aboriginal Americans? I am just speechless at the inanity and excesses of those pretentious brats in Quebec. They are no more French than my ass is French. I have genetic roots in Louisiana, also known as "New Acadia". Formed by the same sort of people who are in Quebec. They were the ones the British evicted. They sailed around the tip of Florida and up the Mississippi river where they stopped and settled in- then French- Louisiana. Today, this part of our culture is honored and revered. Many of the really old folks speak French as well as English. But No one thinks of themselves as French. A French heritage, yes, but native Americans and US citizens first. Most certainly not Frenchmen. In fact, the French in France are held in some low esteem there, for being such world-class azzoles.

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Well, vespa is Italian for wasp, which is what those things sound like.

This might also make Princess Vespa's character in Spaceballs a little clearer.

Jay CNS&M Wireheads of the world, unite!

I guess now we know why the "born within the borders is a citizen" clause is in the Constitution. Because of people like that editor! Somebody needs to dump a tomato in his clam chowder.

Jay CNS&M Wireheads of the world, unite!

David, you have been charged with reading Douglas Adams' insanely silly books. How do you plead?

Jay

1. Usa is an old Japanese City.

1. Many pottery and other exports were marked on the ITEM, not on the SHIPPING CRATE. It was not for customs, but for the consumer that the label was applied. Customs has no regulations on what words are on the item as long as the duty is correctly applied.

Jim Stewart

There is no phrase even remotely like that, at least not in the U. S. Constitution.

MacIndoe