Re: Guns n' stuff

Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Wed, 12 May 1999 09:10:47 -0400

>For one of Australia's most popular shows (and the particularly dry and
>uncharacterisitically non-American irony that show displays suits us
>Aussies to the ground (: ) that one sure went down like a lead balloon over
>here. It was like, well, shall we try and say something, or shall we just
>go with the cliches? Let's just go with the cliches. It's a shame because
>they possibly could have said something a lot more profound if they had
>have tried to show the truth about it, too. Yet as I've abundantly realised
>it's a lot easier for the Yanks just to laugh at us than to understand us
>(:


     Camille,

            I can't even begin to count the number of times you have had
something to say about the US that has been based on some global myth about
us. I generally bite my tongue so as not to give you ,and usually Scottie,
more fuel to add to your explanations about what's wrong with America. In
this post I was initially irked by your assumption that irony is somehow an
unknown quantity to Americans, and then you end by the post by complaining
about the cliches and stereotypes on the Simpsons about Austrailians. I
guess you can play it from both sides of the fence, given your much more
rational non- American perspective, right? I really get tired of this crap.
Really tired. ( And by the way,  if you somehow think that the entire
Simpsons isn't just a collection of stereotypes, Amaerican ones for the most
part, being sent up and lampooned, you're really missing something.)

         Robert Morris
         winboog@gis.net