I apologize for my (unintentional) statements that may have been taken as arrogant and too Pro-American. FWIW, I'm Canadian but I live in the U.S. All I was trying to say was that ONE solitary exception pointed out by someone that lives in a different country than the original poster does nothing to render my point incorrect, nor does it help the person who lives in the US that asked the question. Once again, I apologize for my comment and can only hope that it wasn't taken too harshly. Thank you Deirdre for your spot-on analysis of the situation. It sounds like your husband and I would get along well. =) On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:22PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote: >On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 04:12 PM, Colin McDonald wrote: > >> on 12/2/03 14:40, Ric Perrott at writerric at mac.com wrote: >> >>> Wonderful. However that means exactly squat to people living in the >>> U.S, which is the majority of this list. >> >> Do you realise that this does come across as arrogance and I will not >> be the >> only one to take exception to the (unintentional?) implication that >> the >> views and working realities of the rest of the world are of no concern >> to >> you as an American. > >Being married to someone who comes off enough like Ric that I was >thinking my husband was posting under a different name, I think it's >just his expression of aggravation that people are misinterpreting and >floundering about what he DID say, which was extremely precisely >stated. And accurate.