From: Robert JA Basilio Jr. (boojie_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 11:41:15 PDT
Or more correctly, a Filipino.
Philippine, as a word, is used to refer to the country at large. If you wan=
t
to talk about or refer to a citizen of the Philippines, you say "Filipino."
Robert=20
who hails from Manila but is not there right now
on 9/20/02 1:29 AM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net at newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
wrote:
>=20
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Canada. The Maple Leaf State.
> From: SuerthP_at_andersonnews.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:58:21 -0400
"Kids in the
> Hall" had an episode where they were trying to explain themselves to a
> phillipine who didn't know what canada was... the character said "well, i=
ts
> kind of like america, but without the gun" more aptly put would be "kind =
of
> like america without the poutine".... hehehe. :-)
=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B=8B
"We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is
not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the
spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths
and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist."
=8B E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
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