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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
I have to defend Oz on general principles. Western civilization owes it survival to the U.S.A and the four major countries of the British Empire (Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).
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So why don't they join with us in using NF and NCAA and NBA rules, instead of following the lead of the Euros who are, for the most part, ungrateful jerks who wouldn't know how basketball should really be played if it jumped up from the Maginot line and bit them in the hiney.
BTW - much as it pains me to say it, we would have had a really tough time in WWII without the Soviets. We should at least give credit where credit is due. Plus - they make great salad dressing.
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My father spent 42 months in the Pacific Theater and said that the Aussies were great people, and he sincerely meant that.
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So, who said they weren't? They just need to get un-metricized.
Also BTW - wasn't it Noel Coward who said that America and Great Britian are two countries separated by a common language?