OK, that's it!  I wasn't offended until HK waded in.  Now you've done it.  I
sending the living dead of California DMV to get your sorry butt.  No, don't
apologize.  It's too darn late for that.  Just sends big wads of cash.

My offendedness [is that a word?  probably is now] comes from the fact that
I share that ethnic background.  Well, I thought I did until a friend of
mine who emigrated from the Ukraine informed me that my grandparents coming
from Russia didn't mean that I could be offended by Ukraine offensive stuff.
Well, hell, now I gotta vet my offendedness?[see, I told you that it's a
word now].  The two places are close aren't they?  Can't I have a little
offendedness spillover?

Of course I can as long it involved HK.  So there.  BenT told me I could.
And he's not Russian, or Ukrainian.  Yeah, I guess he's American or at least
vanagon.  Kind of takes the ethnicity out of it, don't it?  [If ethnicity is
a word then so is offendedness.  Fair is fair]

What was I talking  about?  Oops, that's it, sending the undead for HK.
Well, I'm going to do it just on general principles now.

Mike
Non Ukrainian, but close, van person
By the way we on the left coast also thank the big person [see how PC I am]
that you're tromping on Georgia soil.  Or is that a slam at Georgians?  You
know Koya was a Georgian?  You might have know him as Stalin.  So watch who
you're slamming.  Darn, I lost the thread again.  More medication!

----- Original Message -----
From: Horace K. Sawyer <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 8:00 PM
Subject: Friday - More Canadian Tire Mythology --

> OH lighten up old Roy!  You must be from the West coast, cause alot of you
> people have really been getting on my nerves this week.  And YOU know who
> YOU are!  Everyday I say thanks to the Big Man for this Georgia soil I
> tromp around on.
>
> For crying out loud, Roy,  if you;re gonna be a bleedin heart for the
> commies, then I am offended.  You really don't want to offend me.  Could
be
> a situation.  What really offends me is people who are always getting
> offended by something.  Especially when it is funny or even attempted to
be
> humorous.
>
> Besides, I thought "Ukranian Tire" smacked of genuis. Real genuis.  The
guy
> should be given an award, not a tongue lashing.  I am a genuis myself, so
I
> know these things.  : )
>
> Good night
> HK
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >| I went into Ukranian Tire
> >| (as we call it around here - no offence to Ukes!) to look for hatch
> >| struts for my van.
> >
> Then Roy said:
>
>         >Offence taken.
>         >If you feel you might offend someone, why go ahead and make the
comment
> anyway?