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   The Doctor to pandora@peak.org   
   Re: It's Remembrance Day   
   14 Nov 10 13:25:44   
   
   XPost: can.general, can.politics, edm.general   
   XPost: ab.general   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   pandora   wrote:   
   >On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:24:19 +0000, The Doctor wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article , John Fleming   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>>On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:10:52 -0800 (PST), while chained to a desk in the   
   >>>scriptorium "Mr.Smartypants"  wrote:   
   >>>> $On Nov 12, 2:37 pm, doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote: $>   
   >>>> In article , $>   
   >>>> pandora   wrote: $> >On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:15   
   >>>> -0700, John Fleming wrote: $> >> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:47:00 GMT,   
   >>>> while chained to a desk in the $> >> scriptorium Duncan Patton a   
   >>>> Campbell  wrote: $> >>> $On Thu, 11 Nov 2010   
   >>>> 13:50:13 +0000, The Doctor wrote: $ $> >>> $> I am going to the   
   >>>> Edmonton Butterdome to lay a Wreath on behalf of $> >>> the $>   
   >>>> Canadian Club of Edmonton. $> >>> $>   
   >>>> $> >>> $> Are you attending a ceremony? $> >>> $   
   >>>> $> >>> $No.  Not while we are at war.  Remembrance day was originally   
   >>>> $a $> >>> promise to the Veterans of WW1 that this would not happen   
   >>>> $again. $>   
   >>>> $> >> Yet just a generation later we had World War 2. $>   
   >>>> $> >Yep.   
   >>>> $>   
   >>>> $> >> And when you think about it, perhaps the only reason the US and   
   >>>> USSR $> >> were never in a direct miitary conflict was because,   
   >>>> courtesy of the $> >> bomb, it was a war neither side could possibly   
   >>>> win. $>   
   >>>> $> >Indeed.  Being prepared to defend seemed to have worked.  War   
   >>>> Games $> >anyone?   
   >>>> $>   
   >>>> $> You and whose army?!   
   >>>> $   
   >>>> $Uh oh.....Yads is gonna lose it. He thinks Pandora is seeking   
   >>>> $popularity.   
   >>>   
   >>>Don't worry.  Images of the four horsemen of the acopalypse have him   
   >>>dumping in his pants.  Especially when they come riding over the hillls   
   >>>to the imorta music of Wagner's opera "Die Walküre"   
   >>   
   >> Step one: Rapture.   
   >   
   >I prefer Ragnarok myself.   
   >   
      
   That's your choice for stubborn disobedience.   
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