Good morning,

Wow!  This really rubbed some folks the wrong way.

I too took it as purely humor, in the vein of "You might
be a redneck if..." or "You might be from Minnesota/Colorado/etc.
if..."

Cheers,
Scott

> I warmly agree with John ... Being a non-American (Old Europe, you know
> ...), I took that as pure humo(u)r, and I had great fun reading all the
> thing till the end.
>
> And at each line, I was wondering "OK, now what about the Democrats ?" and I
> was expecting a similar piece about the Rules for being a democrat. I admit
> I was kind of disappointed not to see it.
>
> Christian
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> > part de John Dunlop
> > Envoye : lundi 2 fevrier 2004 15:54
> > A : [log in to unmask]
> > Objet : [HP3000-L] OT: Re: Rules for being a republican
> >
> >
> > Now that's funny.  I don't pretend to understand anything about the
> > politics of Republicans and Democrats in the US but this list of Rules
> > was amusing.
> > It seemed to incorporate many of the values being espoused by such as
> > Denys, Shawn and Tim in past posts but in a humo(u)rus way.
> >
> > What was interesting was the way the above were at great pains to pick
> > apart this list but only selectively. It's funny how the list
> > seemed to
> > touch a raw nerve. :o)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John Dunlop
> >
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