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 From: arachedog@zoom.co.uk 
  
 "Limey One"  wrote in message 
 news:NiidndBKRdLq-biiXTWJkw@brightview.com... 
 > arache wrote in message ... 
 > >"Limey One"  wrote in message 
 > >news:fQ2dndEul-ZHY4OiU-KYuQ@brightview.com... 
 > >> arache wrote in message ... 
 > >> > 
 > >> >"Limey One"  wrote in message 
 > >> >news:gSCdnVEmFfPGKIeiXTWJhA@brightview.com... 
 > >> >'Blowback' is the CIA term for the unintended consequences of secret 
 > >> >operations. 
 > >> >Or when the monsters you have created like Saddam or Osama no longer 
 > >serve 
 > >> >your interests and start to bite you. 
 > >> >And September 11th was the biggest blowback of all.... 
 > >> > 
 > >> >Okay, what's a Limey? 
 > >> >cheers, 
 > >> Limey is an old American nickname for the English. 
 > > 
 > >Too right it's straight out of 1947. 
 > 
 > 
 > >It does come across as very dated, are 
 > >you very dated or English? 
 > 
 > I'm English and once when I used a different name in the newsgroups 
 > 
 > an extreme right wing American guy kept calling me 'Limey Scum' 'Limey 
 > Idiot' etc etc 
 > So I thought I'd use it. 
 > Sticks and Stones etc etc 
  
 Excellent, I'll stop asking you what it means then. ;-} 
 It is very dated isn't it? Almost enough to throw my bowler hat under a 
 passing steam train. 
 cheers, 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)