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Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!

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From: Gregory Junker
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00
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Andrae Muys wrote:
> 
> jwe...@negia.net wrote:
> : Ketil Z Malde wrote:
> : >
> : > bne...@netcom.com (Bob Nelson) writes:
> : >
> : > > Paul Rickard (ms-bo...@geocities.com) wrote:
> : >
> : >         [blah blah]
> : >
> : > > Rosa Parks you are not.
> : >
> : > No, he's Paul Rickard, or at least that's whom he claims to be.  WTH is
> : > a Rosa Parks, anyway?
> :
> : Geez... every here of a little thing called the Civil Rights Movement?
> : Rosa Parks set off a boycott of the Montgomery, Al. bus system by
> : refusing to give up her seat to a white man and was thrown in jail
> : because of it, starting the boycott lead by a fella named Martin Luther
> : King, and why the hell didn't you learn all this in school, or at least
> : the papers?
> :
> Ever bothered to check your headers?
> 
> Well heres a quick test, just to be fair.
> 
> Who are Burke and Wills?

Australian explorers who crossed the Simpson Desert.

> 
> What signifigant event happened in 1975, and what did Sir John Kerr have
> to do with it?

Sir john Kerr was Australia's Governor-General who sacked Prime Minister
Goff Whitlam.

> 
> Who is Cpt James Cook?  For what is he remembered? (well by 4million
> people anyway)

Discovered Australia.

> 
> Which country has 3 times as many sheep as people?

New Zealand.

> 
> Well?
> 
> Don't complain that these questions have nothing to do with America, after
> all you don't hesitate to critise a European for not knowing about an
> American civil rights activist!
> 
> Andrae Muys

I have to admit I had 100% help from a native of New South
Wales.....transplanted to America, but she knew who Ross Parks was.....

> 
> --
> =========================================================================
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>                           |
> Andrae Muys               | Linux... What do you want to DO today!
> 4th(and a half)Yr CSE     |
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> Australia                 |    till you can find a rock. - Wynn Catlin

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Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
Date: 1997/01/16
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