For the love of the French. And for Joe English.

Dear Joe,

Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:

"I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"

Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety) from
Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment in the
news, so understated that I nearly missed it.

Sorry, no outrage.
Not here.

--
HES van Schoonhoven
Life is a learning experience

HES van Schoonhoven wrote:

> Dear Joe,
>
> Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:
>
> "I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"
>
> Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
> This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety) from
> Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment in the
> news, so understated that I nearly missed it.
>
> Sorry, no outrage.
> Not here.
>
only because it happened to the french first!

HES van Schoonhoven wrote:
>
> Dear Joe,
>
> Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:
>
> "I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"
>
> Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
> This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety) from
> Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment in the
> news, so understated that I nearly missed it.
>
> Sorry, no outrage.

no 5 ounces of C4, either.

> Not here.
>
> --
> HES van Schoonhoven
> Life is a learning experience

Joe English wrote, on the lack of outrage about american bombs coming
through:
> only because it happened to the french first!

Dear Joe, you're missing the point!
As I wrote in the other string, we, the dutch, were so far ahead of the
french in this stuff, that we could not see them, looking over our
shoulders.
Dutch Airport security already lost a training device late in 2001, early in
2002, if I remember well.
Mind you, at a time the dust of 9/11 hadn't even settled.

So no outrage, overhere.

What really galls me is that the world seems to think that the Phoney French
are the original inventors.
They should have learned from us, but they didn't, just like you

But I bet, this is not the first, not the last and most certanly not the
worst.

Let's start a string on Doing It Right, as in Airpot Security.
No bungeed secondairies there.
--
HES van Schoonhoven
Life is a learning experience

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> schreef in bericht
news:21195$41c2279e$ce504905$5526@allthenewsgroups .com...
> HES van Schoonhoven wrote:
>
>> Dear Joe,
>>
>> Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:
>>
>> "I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"
>>
>> Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
>> This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety)
>> from Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment
>> in the news, so understated that I nearly missed it.
>>
>> Sorry, no outrage.
>> Not here.
>>
> only because it happened to the french first!

HES van Schoonhoven wrote:

> Joe English wrote, on the lack of outrage about american bombs coming
> through:
>
>>only because it happened to the french first!
>
>
> Dear Joe, you're missing the point!
> As I wrote in the other string, we, the dutch, were so far ahead of the
> french in this stuff, that we could not see them, looking over our
> shoulders.
> Dutch Airport security already lost a training device late in 2001, early in
> 2002, if I remember well.
> Mind you, at a time the dust of 9/11 hadn't even settled.
>
> So no outrage, overhere.
>
> What really galls me is that the world seems to think that the Phoney French
> are the original inventors.
> They should have learned from us, but they didn't, just like you
>
> But I bet, this is not the first, not the last and most certanly not the
> worst.
>
> Let's start a string on Doing It Right, as in Airpot Security.
> No bungeed secondairies there.

I'm afraid whenever our federal government gets involved the chance of
DIR is a SFC (Slim Fucking Chance).

What pisses me off about security at the airports is that it is solving
nothing. They will stop some little old lady with a hairpin, and let
the dangerous shit walk by. If they are going to stop us before getting
on a plane -then make it worh our while - check everyone thoroughly

>From: "HES van Schoonhoven" harrier@zonnet.nl

>Dear Joe, you're missing the point!
>As I wrote in the other string, we, the dutch, were so far ahead of the
>french in this stuff, that we could not see them, looking over our
>shoulders.

Oh, cool.

Everybody hates the French.


Popeye
The only working atomic bomb platforms the
Japanese ever had were delivered via airmail.

"HES van Schoonhoven" <harrier@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
news:c3860$41c1f4f4$3ea61518$12320@news1.zonnet.nl ...
> Dear Joe,
>
> Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:
>
> "I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"
>
> Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
> This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety)
> from Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment in
> the news, so understated that I nearly missed it.
>
> Sorry, no outrage.
> Not here.

Dear everybody. I grew up within a few miles of Miami International
Airport. My father was an FBI Agent here in S. Florida. When there was a
bomb scare, he got the call. He got called out at 3:00 AM about once a
month. These incidents also failed to make it to the media.

Things changed in 2001 and the media changed with them. Now, if the media
gets it, everybody gets it.

Lee

"Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:gTCwd.2398$yK.1654@newsread3.news.atl.earthli nk.net...
> "HES van Schoonhoven" <harrier@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:c3860$41c1f4f4$3ea61518$12320@news1.zonnet.nl ...
>> Dear Joe,
>>
>> Lately you started an amusing thread in this forum with the question:
>>
>> "I can only imagine the world outrage if this had happen in the USA!"
>>
>> Well, you can put this burning problem to rest.
>> This morning at Schiphil Airport we received a bomb (the bogus variety)
>> from Newark, USA, and it provoked no more then some superficial comment
>> in the news, so understated that I nearly missed it.
>>
>> Sorry, no outrage.
>> Not here.
>
> Dear everybody. I grew up within a few miles of Miami International
> Airport. My father was an FBI Agent here in S. Florida. When there was a
> bomb scare, he got the call. He got called out at 3:00 AM about once a
> month. These incidents also failed to make it to the media.
>
> Things changed in 2001 and the media changed with them. Now, if the media
> gets it, everybody gets it.
>
> Lee
>

The point of terrorism is to create terror. The media is doing much of the
terrorist's work for them. Who is at fault, the terrorists, the media, the
public?

HES van Schoonhoven wrote to Joe English:

>>As I wrote in the other string, we, the dutch, were so far ahead of the
>>french in this stuff, that we could not see them, looking over our
>>shoulders.

Then "Popeye NCAT3" wrote:
> Oh, cool.
>
> Everybody hates the French.

Now what, Popeye, hate the French?
Hate???

Nah! They amuse me.

At times.

We know them as a somewhat stuck-up people, with a barely concealed
superiority complex and an inclination to the grandiose.
They invented the word 'Chauvinst' ...

.... and thought it wasn't a bad name to be called.

But hey, I don't have to go all the way to France to meet lots of people
like that.

All we have to wait for, now, is the French, lurking in this forum, writing
their testimonial of the Dutch.
Let's hear it.

(And just like they used to say of the Japanese: 'They do make beautiful
cars.')
--
HES van Schoonhoven
Life is a learning experience

HES van Schoonhoven wrote:
> HES van Schoonhoven wrote to Joe English:
>
> >>As I wrote in the other string, we, the dutch, were so far ahead of
the
> >>french in this stuff, that we could not see them, looking over our
> >>shoulders.
>
> Then "Popeye NCAT3" wrote:
> > Oh, cool.
> >
> > Everybody hates the French.
>
> Now what, Popeye, hate the French?
> Hate???
>
> Nah! They amuse me.
>
> At times.
>
> We know them as a somewhat stuck-up people, with a barely concealed
> superiority complex and an inclination to the grandiose.
> They invented the word 'Chauvinst' ...
>
> ... and thought it wasn't a bad name to be called.
>
> But hey, I don't have to go all the way to France to meet lots of
people
> like that.
>
> All we have to wait for, now, is the French, lurking in this forum,
writing
> their testimonial of the Dutch.
> Let's hear it.

The Dutch?

The guys who would start a meeting by remarking "My! That's a terrible
suit you are wearing today! Did you actually buy it?"

The guys who speak a language that makes German sound musical by
comparison?
Or did you mean the pot-smoking pimps?



Cheers,

Froggy