[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/9/2012 9:16 PM, David Froble wrote:
> MG wrote:
>> On 9-8-2012 21:00, Paul Sture wrote:
>>> FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by total
>>> strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me for
>>> rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't born
>>> then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".
>>
>> How old were they, around 50~60?
>>
>>
>>> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
>>> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.
>>
>> There's a joke: After 1945, everybody was in 'the resistance'!
>>
>>  - MG
>
> Bad joke.  Everyone was trying to survive.  Some maybe resisting more
> than others, but, they should never have been in that position in the
> first place.  I got to wonder, how long before everyone learns to treat
> others as they would want to be treated.

The idea has been around for two thousand years or more.  People are 
still killing each other.

I've got a little list, I've got a little list and NONE OF THEM WILL BE 
MISSED!

I'm not going to hold my breath. . . .