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The "Cat-People" wars are covered slightly differently in the book "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers". The religious war exploded when one faction believed that they awaited the return if Clister who would take them & lead them back to the promised land; Bearth. The other faction believed exactly the same thing but called him C'Lister! Then there's the whole "Life of Brian" sketch. "Follow the Cap!" "Follow the Sandal!" I'm not sure that all having the same religion would really matter all that much. There's still skin colour / Accent / Nose shape / Eye shape / Hair colour /What your ancestors did to my ancestors / They stole our sheep / They talk funny / They're WELSH!!! (No... Wait a minute... That last one is justified.) Mike. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I must admit I had considered Donation to Medical Science - at least that way my skeleton gets to be dressed up & attend some KILLER Nurse & doctor parties! Then there was the cardboard coffin & £500 put behind the bar thing (I hate waste)!

Health care (& indeed the whole socialised care network) is available to all persons legally resident in The UK. I think they look at the preceding year, & obviously the existence of a National Insurance # & NHS#. So technically an American tourist is going to get a bill. In reality, for "emergencies", EVERYONE gets the same level of care. Our medical services are run on a basis of need, not of ability to pay. As such, the American tourist who collapses in the street will be picked up by ambulance, taken to hospital, & treated as neccessary. At some point when all that is over, some administrator will ask; "Should he pay? Can he pay?" The main difference I perceived between UK & US hospitals was the amount of administrator influence over clinical decisions. In The UK, clinical staff make clinical decisions purely in the interest of the patient (& with the assumption that this treatment is already paid for) while administrators are expected to stay in their offices and administer. Quite frankly, God help the administrator who tries to tell clinical staff how to treat a patient on the basis of something so tawdry as money! Finally, bear in mind that our much maligned NHS is run at around 40% of the cost of American health care.... Despite our care including seriously long term care if neccessary. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Ja... Aber sie ist eine Phantasie vom Marchenland. Nicht eine wirkliche Frau. Sowieso warum betrachten Und tickling Sie sie? Mike.

... For the boys. It involves a seductively dressed girl & an interactive feather and it's NOT WORK SAFE!!! NOT WORK SAFE!!! NOT WORK SAFE!!! Unless of course you are self employed or head of IT! http://www.axefeather.com/index_pop.aspx?referred=&country=uk Enjoy... I did! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

15 years in jail? In that case I'd suspect some sinning - sex not between a man & woman (Missionary Position only please) for the purposes of making a child would be a pretty sure bet! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

"Hell, as a resident of AZ I don't free medical care.... maybe we should explore that; socialized medicine." I'm amazed that this hasn't been explored in the US. Bear in mind that the UK's supposedly creaky, delay-ridden, inept, National Health Service is actually run on between 1/2 & 1/3 of what an average health insurance package costs a US citizen per capita! Our socialized health care has no exclusions, and no problems with long term care pitfalls! If you need care, you get it, and the failings of The NHS are big news simply because they are so unusual. Of course, socialised medicine along the NHS model would be death for health insurance companies! Mike. Edited to add: Why try & catch the Mexicans at the border - why not just wait until their day off? Pic attached to help y'all identify a mexican sunbathing! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Of course, there is a cheap & simple Borowitz Report solution to this whole problem...! BORDER CONTROL JOBS OUTSOURCED TO MEXICO Setback for Homeland Security, Critics Say In what some critics of illegal immigration are calling a setback for homeland security, 500 border control agents hired just this week learned today that their jobs were being outsourced to Mexico. “In a perfect world, it would be great to have American border control agents on the U.S. side of the border,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. “Having said that, we are going to save a bundle by having those same functions performed by Mexicans on the Mexican side of the border.” Recognizing that the outsourcing decision will not endear him to critics of the Administration’s immigration policies, Mr. Chertoff said, “I fully expect Lou Dobbs to rip me a new one.” Nevertheless, Mr. Chertoff said, starting Monday the U.S. will scrap traditional border patrols and replace them with what he called a “state of the art border-control calling center” located in a suburb of Guadalajara. The plan calls for prospective illegal aliens to telephone the calling center with the approximate time and place they intend to sneak over the border to the U.S. Hoping to silence criticism of the controversial plan, President Bush addressed the immigration issue head on today in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan: “To those who would illegally enter our country seeking jobs, let me say this: stay where you are, and eventually our jobs will come to you.” Mike. Edited to add: See!? For every major problem there's a solution that's simple, cheap, and wrong! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

There... Errr... Was the suggestion that The Pope was lying on his death bed, and every so often his eyes would flutter open and gaze at the clock. A few minutes ago he looked at the clock andtried to speak. A Monsignor leaned over him and the pope whispered; What time is it in The Aleutian Islands?" The Monsignor goes away to find out and comes back a few minutes later and says; It's five after mid-day, Holy Father. whereupon the pope leaps up and shouts; THAT'S how you pull an April Fools Trick! But in seriousness... Karol will be missed, and he'll be a hard act to follow. He's the man who brought Catholicism out of the vatican and made the Catholic Church more catholic. My prayers, like those of so many other non-catholics and even Athiests are with him as he passes on. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

What an excellent, thought provoking and interesting thread.

A little premature mate - from BBC news at 1900hrs GMT still alive but physical condition worsening. Meanwhile, we've stories of Moslems entering Catholic Churches & Cathedrals to join the vigil, and vigils being held in Sikh Temples. Then there's The Peoples Republic of China! Their Politburo has sent a "message of concern (& condolence). Pretty impressive given that they withdrew ALL relations with The Vatican in 1953. I think that Teh Pope's full title means "Chief Bridge Builder" (between man & God), and Karol certainly leaves that bridge (& others) in a fine state of repair. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

What have you tried that you didn't like? YOU CAN'T SHOOT IT & PREPARE IT WIFF A KA-BAR![/B][/I] Mike. Edited to add: Plus it comes in far too little portions! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... Steak rules. Blue or Tartare. It doesn't matter. What DOES matter is that this is speakers corner - a place where all right thinking people can discuss their favourite techniques & guns for shooting God's Good Red Meat!

Not convenient. Realistic. None of us have a crystal ball or way to see into the future (have we?) so what we HAVE to do is what we honestly believe is right at the time, with the information we have. Beating up on someone else (or yourself) with "IF ONLY" is, IMnvHO a far worse crime than the original mistake - provided the person(s) acted in good faith. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Err... NO! It's only murder if it's a deliberate act. It's only manslaughter if there's culpable negligence. If you kill someone while carrying out a lawful action in a proper manner showing reasonable care, then it's commonly called "Casual Homicide - which isn't criminal! WHAT war crimes have been committed by the intelligence communities in providing the demanded assessment to their political leaders. They did their best with the information they had at the time. The coalition leaders acted on the information available. Of course, it's alkl too easy to condemn with the benefit of hindsight & new information? I find your linkage somewhat stretched. whether we were justified in invading Iraq eill only be resolved by historians 50+ years in the future. Would you also like me to personally apologise to the families of the Canadian & British servicemen who were killed by US "Friendly fire"? What I said was that WITH HINDSIGHT the intelligence communities made a mistake. Running around madly in an atempt to blame someone is a waste. PArticularly when history is all too likely to judge this as the right war for the wrong reason. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Anyone who is surprised & outraged at intelligence agencies making mistakes has obviously been reading too many Jack Ryan novels! These agencies are charged with trying to find out stuff which their targets are trying very hard to conceal! By definition they have to deal with traitorous liars & make their assessments on incomplete information. So yeah. They got it wrong. Live with it. Deal with it. Move on. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Naaah..... I'm pretty sure that he's pretty sure that God's only going to hit The US. This'll bring a whole new meaning to the term "wetbacks" in Mexico! Anyway, don't y'all panic yet. By 1st January 2008 I'm also pretty sure that The US will still be there, and Mustapha Kuppa will blame the inaccuracies in his calculations on the inbuilt Great Satan influence in his Texas Instruments Pocket Calculator! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

You missed out Mustapha Kuppa! And the image of Charlie "riding" THAT particular camel through the town gates is a sure sign of a disturbed mind! Mike. PS. The HPC are a bunch of gits! Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

... Spare a thought for this guy! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7308702/?GT1=6305 Now, let the paper plane flying begin... http://www.workmanweb.com/fliersclub/simulator2.html Post distances!? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Was, once. Back in the days of the old DCRR Qualification - when "daylight" film systems were a wonderful new fangled idea, CT Scanners made a hell of a lot of crashing & banging (& were only good for skulls), and NMRI was something a couple of loons were messing about with in a university! I just never got around to cancelling my State Registration. RA25319 I think. Mike.

As long as it doesn't decide to BANG me! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

How would you know, since the safety is on the other side, hidden, in that photo. They're sneaky like that... Yeah... That sneakiness is what makes them so dangerous! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

... I think it just flicked it's safety at me... Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

LOVE the Americans - quick off the mark as ever!? http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=325 Anyway - he's already won "Greatest Briton". Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

You've just gotta love the "LIBERAL IDIOT". My own favourite quote: Barroso said she is afraid the book could inspire a child to seek firearms, and noted the recent shooting at a school on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, where a student killed several students and teachers and also took his own life. "I know my son's not going to do it, but I don't know that somebody else's son is not," Barroso said. I wonder how many parents have actually thought or said: "I think that my child is going to shoot up his school when he's older". In the meantime, IF we're going to burn ALL the books & pamphlets about guns, then doesn't that include all the books & pamphlets about gun control? How else can we completely suppress this gun fixation? IM(nv)HO, this parent should be shackled to a seat with her eyes taped open while "Fahrenheit 451" is played continuously to her! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.