Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

DougL wrote:
> On May 14, 4:16 pm, "Mike stone" <mwst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Gene" <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>> news:Xns9A9E746A5BDC9genewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> DougL <lampert.d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:c7611077-aeaa-
>>> 463d-b250-19bdf4a2d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Much like the 'All Frenchmen in 1945 had been members of the
>>>> resistance since 1941' phenomena I'm sure that 'All Austrians
>>> opposed
>>>> the Anschluss, including especially any named Kurt Waldheim
>>> who really
>>>> had nothing to do with it at all'.
>> And "all Brits in 1945 remebered how appalled they had been by Munich
in
>> '38", and "the vast majority of Americans in Nov 1963 remembered voting
for
>> Kennedy two years before, and an almost equal majority, in August 1974,
>> remembered having voted for McGovern in '72". Memory is a funny bthing.
> 
> But the wierd thing about the Anschluss especially and the Frogs to a
> lesser extent is that the REST of us mostly go along with the gag.
> 
> And in the case of the Frogs we insult them and use them for comic
> relief on Hogan's Heroes and other comedies. I can't think of an
> Austrian specific insulting term, Italians are Wogs, French are Frogs,
> Brits are Limeys, Spaniards are Spics, Poles are Polacks, Austrians
> are ???.
> 

MORE Krauts!

I think you may overestimate the level of precision upon which 
such guys as mostly use these terms are wont to insist.

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Cheers,

Gray

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