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From: rgilbert@orl.mmc.com (Bob Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Vendor bashing and pushing Ada....and
Date: 23 Sep 1994 14:51:20 GMT
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In article 1fb2@watnews1.watson.ibm.com, ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) writes:
->In article <35lgse$it4@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
->writes: 
->
->|> P.S. those ain't fireworks between Mike and me, them's merely
->|> animated discussions :-)
->
->To paraphrase what a certain frequent contributor to this forum says
->about the word "argument": 
->
->This just proves once again that British tend to view the word
->"fireworks" as a negative term while Americans tend to view it as a
->positive term.
->
->:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
->
->(Perhaps it comes from two different perspectives on celebrations of the
->U.S. Declaration of Independence.)

Yeah, I've heard our Independence Day is Britian's Thanksgiving :-).

-Bob