> >Most Americans have to stop and think before >they can name their Senators and some of them >can't do it.
>
> Voinivitch, DeWine. ;) And the US rep from my district is Jim Trafficant *rolls eyes*

Hey! A fellow Ohioan! I'm afraid I'm too uneducated to tell where you live based on who your rep is. Care to share?

> Ah, that's why I use a debit card. I'd end up in debt so quickly if I had a credit card, and I don't want that. :)

You're not a pseudonym for The Scotsman are you? That sounds exactly like something he would say.

> >can't drive a manual transmission,
>
> Er..... so? As a computer user, I don't expect normal people to be able to use DOS (or Linux, for that matter), because they can use Windows which everyone's used to. So why should I have to be able to drive a car with manual transmission when I can always drive one with automatic? Not to say that I wouldn't like to learn, but saying that manual transmission driving is a skill everyone should know seems kind of presumptuous.

I only learned how to drive a manual when I had to. At one point during one summer, the only car available to drive was our family's old VW bus, so I hopped in with my dad and rode over to the University of Dayton Arena's parking lot, and learned how to drive the thing. That was probably the most difficult vehicle I could have learned a stickshift in (excluding a schoolbus or an 18-wheeler, maybe) but that was good for me. I've never had any trouble driving a manual since.

> >Most people have no idea what the word stop >means when displayed on a red sign.
>
> Er, I think this is a bit of an exaggeration.. otherwise cars would be crashing all over the place. :)

Okay, you HAVE to be The Scotsman. That sounds EXACTLY like something he would say!!! Well, maybe you're his long lost twin brother or something. This is almost as eery as the Kiki/Denkara thing.

> -syr "attempting to become better-known in rinkworks" inx

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