Re: Help for Oerjan

Reminds me of that add I saw on television when I wan in Toronto 
earlier
this year, the guy up behind the podium on a tirade about being
Canadian,
and pronouncing it about, not aboot. Pretty damn funny.

Jade Tseng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barclay, Tom" <tomb@bitheads.com>
To: "'gzg-digest@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-digest@vex.cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 7:39 PM
Subject: Help for Oerjan

> Tongue planted firmly in cheek...
>
> I see our good friend Oerjan has the problem of having gamers who've
seen
> the US, ex-sov, German, and Swede hardware. Try showing them some of
the
> obscure vehicles out of Africa or South America - some of them are
quite
> neat looking (as you well know *lol*). Or show them some Canadian
vehicles -
> some of ours are rare enough _WE'VE_NEVER_SEEN_THEM. ;)
>
> I think one point to address what Allan said - though we use the M113,
more
> use is had form the new 8x8 LAV-style vehicle (can't recall what we
call
it
> - successor to the 6x6 Grizzly and 6x6 Cougar). Wheeled APCs and AFVs
are
> all the rage now. Better mobility and self sufficiency I guess versus
> tracked systems.
>
> And I have to second Allan's other comment. Though I like very much
many
of
> the wonderful Americans I've met through this list (Jon, KR, Los,
Kr'rt,
and
> many others), I'm a Canuck and I'm *NOT* American. North American,
sure.
> Even better, Canadian. Better still (chuckle) Canadian of Scottish
descent.
> But not an American please. That'd sort of be like me accusing any
middle
> European of being a German or French just because they came from "sum
furrin
> place".
>
> *grin* And they say we Canadians aren't patriotic... yeah right.
>