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Dennis... Ya might as well pass on swimming the Rio Grande in order to enter the US if you're looking to be called an "illegal alien" by doing that. Ya see, THAT term was OFFICIALLY declared to be politically incorrect (REALLY! Some governmental Bozo had the term banned!). NOW if ya swim the Rio Grande to get into the US, or enter by some other unlawful means, you're called an "undocumented immigrant." Errrrr.... in other words.... an "illegal alien!" Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Dennis Greene Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 4:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Foreigners revisited Bruce Anderson seems to be under the impression that I object to being called a foreigner. He wrote: "But picking on the word foreigner is really pretty silly. Here if you don't live in the U.S. you're a foreigner because.........ta da..........you live in another country." which sent me scuttling back to my original posting to see where he could have got that idea from. The only candidate I could find was that at one point I emphasised foreign by putting it in quotation marks. My intention was to emphasis "foreign" as opposed to "domestic" but I can see how it could be read as objecting to "foreign". Which only goes to show that the best placed quotation marks of PC and pen, gang oft astray (with apologies to R. Burns). Please do not stop using foreigner on my account. For some years now I have been reconciled to the fact that the US Department of Immigration has never written to me demanding that I move to the United States. I have even got over the fact that this means that to Americans I shall always be a foreigner and that they shall always be foreigners to me. Ah-ha! I have the answer. I'll visit Mexico and swim across the Rio Grande. That should serve to change my status from being a mere foreigner to that of being an illegal alien. Now there's a word to conjure with. (With tongue firmly in cheek) Dennis.