[SOC] Purdie... said what?

[Ian C. Purdie]

Charles Harpole wrote:
> Jeepers, Ian,
> What in your msg could possibly raise such a charge?  I re read your message and find it wonderful news that the US President did something good.  The only thing I could find was the word dinkum, which the ignorant could construe as making a negative comment on a man of dark skin.  It is possible that there was an American slang "dink" but I am not sure if anyone remembers it was used in Vietnam to refer to the US Asian enemy.  Certainly, nothing on Google shows any dark skin person racist dimension for the whole word, "dinkum."  Actually if this guy Kurt thinks that word triggered something inside him, HE is the sick puppy.
>  
> In fact, the dictionary of slang says dinkum is a very positive Aussie usage.

Actually the words "Fair Dinkum" could be translated as "The God's 
Truth" and oplden day expression.
>  
> I really liked your trump saying u are one of the moderators.....hoo hoo boy, very good!

I was Shanghai'ed into that yonks back and have lost all the details. I 
note the actual "List Owner" hasn't commented yet, even privately.

He's the one who hands out certificates. His likely attitude is:

a) You can well take care of yourself OR;
b) Why did you start all this? OR;
c) As much as I love you, you started it, you clean it up.

A top, genuine fellow, along with so many here who choose, in very 
recent years to sit quietly in the background.
>  
> And quite sadly, your view on Americas divided people is so completely accurate.  America is sick and its people blind to the illness or just ready to blame "the others."  I do not see a way out of the hole they have dug and have predicted that Calif, NV, OR, WA will simply withdraw from the union someday and like-minded people will begin to migrate to "their" chosen areas and people ... dare I say it, like the PARTITION in India/Pakistan years ago.  The Northeast will leave, too and the dumb and barefoot in the middle (where I was born and grew up) will learn what a Third World country is like.

I hope not Charles. You have a wonderful country but as my father used 
to say:

"A family divided among itself will fail"

> Partly because of their illiness, I moved out of my home in Fla and retired to Thailand permanently 10 yrs ago.  I am now happily HS0ZCW and minor DX to boot.  

I wish I had known that much earlier. A good friend of mine who was the 
Editor of Asia Times Online [since murdered] lived there. A top fellow 
who was South African and chose to become an Australian.

Privately we rarely spoke of international politics, mostly cricket and 
his personal passion of painting. He was a msst accomplished artist who 
spent a great deal of time studying our Aboriginal artists and learning.

> I admire how u handled this sad incident.  sincere 73, Charly

I simply try Charles and with so many others I've encountered over the 
last 15+ years... I can only say.

Thanks for being my friend.


Thanks! :) 72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
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