----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Broad" <invest@portsmouth-mann.com>
To: <mvlist@egroups.com>; <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:31 AM
Subject: [MVlist] Earl, politics and relative beauty........
>
> It is certainly a big "Well Done" to Earl for his persistence and ultimate
> success in bringing the Form 6 issue to heel.
>
Yes it is and don't forget some private individuals have their name on the
petition and the suits know where they live. . . . . . .
> Great stuff!
>
It is, congratulations to all. Bar stool prophets/barrack room lawyers/et
al should thank their lucky stars that the can-do/go-get American action
attitude is alive and well in some quarters.
Let the HMV armour roll guys, well deserved.
I'll chat to Rikk and Gavin about the rest off-list.
> As for "Ugly Americans", well, in my 12 years over here spent drinking
with
> my American (and other nationality) mates, I have only ever heard
> US nationals use the term.
>
True.
Sure, the sensationalist media will trot it out, but strangely its been
coined by yourselves and not really deserved at all, totally alien term to
the mass of the people here, you do yourself a disservice Rikk.
Richard
Southampton - England
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