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   From: ccaine@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "WhiteWolf @iol.ie>"  wrote in message   
   news:938573h6eppher294b05fk0csmjss4kkqr@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:06:45 GMT, "Conway Caine"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>"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)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Who could blame them... Ireland is such a wonderful place!  :)   
      
   They say that Jewish folk can only truly be happy in Israel.   
   I say that the Irish and those of Irish ancestry can only truly be happy in   
   Ireland.   
   There is a magic, a mystery about that island.   
   It draws as a lodestone.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)