And lo on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:21:42 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:16:46 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
>> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>>> As opposed to Mexico.
>>>
>>> I don't know what opposed to. I don't look hispanic. I look German or  
>>> so, if you had to guess.  (Not aryan german, old deep woods german.) I  
>>> was guessing like United Arab Emerates or something, maybe.
>>  I meant the United States of Mexico :-)
>
> I understood that. I just don't know why they'd think I was more mexican  
> than any other "united states of ..."

I meant it humorously, the assumption that America means the USA and not  
the continent in the same context that the United States also means  
America and not Mexico.

-- 
Phil Cook

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