cowan@... wrote:

>
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > Seriously speaking, as modern devilries such as rock'n'roll, electricity and
> > blue jeans are making their ways also to our remote European lands,
>
> Rock'n'roll I grant you is American, but useful electricity was the
> work of a Serbian, and blue jeans were designed by a native of Latvia,
> using cloth de Nimes.
>
> > Well, but AFAIK the "nonexistent 'Pete'" is an American guy. So I guess he'd
> > rather settle the matter by drawing his colts and shooting dead the felon in
> > the town's saloon, as usual in traditional American society. :-)
>
> Pete's from New York, where we use submachine guns instead.

Wouldn't those be Marco's people, anyway?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...