[Wikipedia-l] Off topic on cultural differences

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 26 August 2002 02:30 pm, you wrote:
> I had no idea that a person could be sued anywhere in the world for
> calling someone an asshole.  Americans are litigious enough already,
> god forbid if we could sue people for _that_!  :-)
>
> --Jimbo

Good lord! I would have been thrown in prison or sued into poverty many yarns 
ago if the US had such a law (along with a majority of the adult male 
population in the US -- in some circles this and similar insults is how you 
say hello to friends). 

God bless the USA!

OK that is enough - back to wiki business...

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)