Great country

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Your double talk is getting better.

Won't kill you to admit it, we didn't become a super-power without creating things.

Britain was the world power in the 19th century, the USA is for the 20th, we will see about the 21st.

I know there have been great American inventions and great American inventors (like Thomas Edison).

And the 21st century belongs to Switzerland! Never get complacent around the Swiss.

[Chris 62]

They make such lovely knives and watches after all.

[flash9286]

the internet was created by the usa military, i dont have to time to see who researched dna first but i know americans were the first to map the human genonme

[Dauphin]

Crick and Watson discovered DNA at Cambridge, England, IIRC.

One of them was American I think.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by charmon1
Twenty days before we liberated his Lithuanian homeland, his father died of starvation. Si was 14 when the U.S. Army liberated him from the labor camp.

Lithuania was liberated by the Americans?

My history books must be all wrong.

[Hueij]

And stop picking on the new guy, or I'll have ta get rough!

Oh? I always thought it was our duty to pick on newbies? And an American at that?

Please don't tell me I was wrong all this time...

[flash9286]

not me im kewl

[Hueij]

Originally posted by charmon1
not me im kewl

You could've fooled me...

[Chris 62]

As long as you use that Lauren BeCall avatar. it's OK, BUT just a little....

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Chris 62
As long as you use that Lauren BeCall avatar. it's OK, BUT just a little....

Hey, if you want me to I can always change it to the Vargas one. It was very popular with WW2 bomber crews, and since you are old airforce...

[Chris 62]

That's AIRBORNE, as in paratroops.

No, I like her just fine, she was just so freakin good lookin way back when, easy to see why bogie went for her.

[Adalbertus]

Lithuania was liberated by the Americans?

To all of my knowledge, Lithuania was liberated by the Russians from the Lithuanians, then by the Germans from the Russians, then by the Russians from the Germans, and then by the Lithuanians form the Russians, with gentle permission of Mr. Gorbachew.

[Dauphin]

Yeah, I know, it was a sarcastic question in reference to someones post.

I keep forgetting to put smilies, I thought that it spoke for itself as sarcasm.

Edit- Actually read what you posted.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Chris 62
That's AIRBORNE, as in paratroops.

No, I like her just fine, she was just so freakin good lookin way back when, easy to see why bogie went for her.

Ah, my mistake, all the more painfull since it's almost Sept 17, the day Market Garden started. Living in Arnhem I should have realised that, I know you were a paratrooper. I actually saw your old avatar on a site about Market Garden.

About Lauren Bacall, I saw her sometime ago on television and she still looks beautiful, for a 70+ woman who refuses to have bodyparts lifted. And she still has "The look". Bogey had one hell of a lot of taste

[Pandemoniak]

Originally posted by charmon1
the internet was created by the usa military, i dont have to time to see who researched dna first but i know americans were the first to map the human genonme

Well, actuallt the first intra-network was created in France, but American were the first to put it into militar use.
Just my 2 cents on your two sucres.

(Explanation : the "sucre" is the money of equator : 1 sucre = 0,0000001 euro, = 0,00000013 dollars)