Principalities

[donato at stlnet.com]

At 03:11 PM 9/16/96 -0700, you wrote:

>Just to slightly rework a joke:
>
>  Calontir sucks, that's why southern Ansteorra doesn't fall into the Gulf.
>
>   :)     :)          :)         :)            :)          :)
>
>Estrill
>
>(this is an attempt at humor. if this had been an actual valid piece of 
>humor, warning sirens would have blown and you would have been directed 
>to roll on the floor, laughing, with [your choice of drink] coming out 
>your nose. this was only an attempt at humor.)
>
 
As a Calontiran, I am at a loss to find humor in this joke.  I made my home
in Ansteorra for three happy years, and I would like to remember it as a
place of hospitality rather than ethnocentric hostility.  

Donato