OT:US don't qualify for EU membership, don't spank children, WW2 history.

[Wardad]

> >Now that Uday & Qusay have been eliminated, a lot of the
> >lesser-known family members are coming to the attention of
> >American authorities.
> >
> >Among the brothers:
> >
> >Sooflay ............the restauranteur
> >Huray...............the sports fanatic
> >Sashay..............the gay brother
> >Kuntay & Kintay.....the twins from the African mother
> >Sayhay..............the baseball player
> >Ojay................the stalker/murderer
> >Gulay...............the singer/entertainer
> >Ebay................the internet czar
> >Biliray.............the country music star
> >Ecksray.............the radiologist
> >Puray...............the blender factory owner
> >Regay...............the half-Jamaican brother
> >Tupay...............the one with bad hair
> >
> >Among the sisters:
> >
> >Lattay..............the coffee shop owner
> >Bufay...............the 300 pound sister
> >Dushay..............the clean sister
> >Phayray.............the zoo worker in the gorilla house
> >Sapheway............the grocery store owner
> >Ollay...............the half-mexican sister
> >Gudlay..............the prostitute
> >
> >Finally, there is Oyvey, but the family doesn't like to talk about him.

[jimbob]

People always seem to forget that though the US didn't enter WWI until very late they profited off of it a great deal as the "Arsenal of Democracy" selling to the British. With British Colonial doctrine being what it was it is unlikely that the USA as colony would have had that kind of production capability, just look at India and Egypt and Australia or other British colonies for what it probably would have been. A source of raw materials for export to the British manufacturing base and a source of young men to be used as cannon fodder, sorry, artillery and heavy machine gun fodder...

Hmmm... Riddle me this: I can think of another country in North America that remained an Imperial colony, managed to connect sea to sea under the authority of a single federal government, industrialize (ie produce tanks), and played a pivotal role in the outcome of both WWI and WWII by jumping in at the start with the Imperial "overmaster". In the process of becoming a nation it managed to not wage a costly war against the imperial power, not wage a costly civil war against itself and it managed to not perform genocide against it's indigenous tribes (though the nation did institute a number of destructive policies against the indigenous people, it did not have a policy of open warfare against them per se).

10 points and a piece of toast to the person who answers my riddle correctly!

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by jimbob:

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People always seem to forget that though the US didn't enter WWI until very late they profited off of it a great deal as the "Arsenal of Democracy" selling to the British. With British Colonial doctrine being what it was it is unlikely that the USA as colony would have had that kind of production capability, just look at India and Egypt and Australia or other British colonies for what it probably would have been. A source of raw materials for export to the British manufacturing base and a source of young men to be used as cannon fodder, sorry, artillery and heavy machine gun fodder...

Hmmm... Riddle me this: I can think of another country in North America that remained an Imperial colony, managed to connect sea to sea under the authority of a single federal government, industrialize (ie produce tanks), and played a pivotal role in the outcome of both WWI and WWII by jumping in at the start with the Imperial "overmaster". In the process of becoming a nation it managed to not wage a costly war against the imperial power, not wage a costly civil war against itself and it managed to not perform genocide against it's indigenous tribes (though the nation did institute a number of destructive policies against the indigenous people, it did not have a policy of open warfare against them per se).

10 points and a piece of toast to the person who answers my riddle correctly!

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And what a world power they became!

[tesco samoa]

Thermo

[Thermodyne]

What?

[Loser]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
What?

He's grinning at you, because you made with teh funny.

[Thermodyne]

I did?