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   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "The Highlander"  wrote in message   
   news:uvb473lgn1mvj1h242lb1ld3qec1ikuif9@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:29:25 GMT, "Conway Caine"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>"WhiteWolf @iol.ie>"  wrote in message   
   >>news:5nf273p7qu7t1ri46jakvp3t14sf2pij11@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:41:04 GMT, The Highlander    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>With those two words... You just what little credibility you might ever   
   >>>>>have   
   >>>>>had...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Ray   
   >>>>   
   >>>>That's wonderful, Ray - now there are two of you!   
   >>>   
   >>> I've booked my laugh at your poor attempt at a joke for next week   
   >>> tuesday   
   >>> between the hours of 10am and 10.01 am...     
   >>   
   >>Remember, Ray, The Highlander is descended from that bunch you guys ran   
   >>out   
   >>of Ireland two thousand or more years ago.   
   >>Can you wonder then at his bitterness, sitting as he does in the Frozen   
   >>North of Alba, gazing back at the verdant shores of Ireland, and wishing   
   >>he   
   >>could come home?   
   >>   
   > Ran us out?   
   >   
   > Large numbers of Ulster natives are Scots by descent. I haven't   
   > noticed any tendency on their part to leave, despite the best the IRA   
   > could throw at them.   
      
   Unwanted house guests, the lot of them.   
   They came to supper and now refuse to leave.   
   (I really can't blame them though)   
      
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