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 From: LimeyOne@hotmail.com 
  
 arache wrote in message ... 
 >"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, 
  
  
 Or a district nurse cycling round the village cricket pitch at sunset. 
 Or an Automobile Association Official flagging you donw on the A23 
 to warn you of a plice speed trap up ahead - "Stay below 20mph Sir, Good 
 Day!" 
  
 Actually Limey is older than 1947, porbably dates back to the 19th C - 
 but like I say it seems some Americans still call us Brits 
 Limeys - and thats OK by me - Limes are one of the more interesting citrus 
 fuits. 
 US troops stationed in Britian during WW2 certainly called Brits 'Limeys'. 
  
 cheers 
 Limey One 
  
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