<kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sat, 26 May 2007 08:31:54 -0400, Amy Kwok
> <amy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 26 May 2007 00:25:09 -0400, kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>In message <8qud5317i53nhunhsdcudncv3bll3kt26f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan Brand
>>>><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:07:15 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>Tuesday? AND Monday, I suppose? Oh well, I don't care if the
weather
>>>>>>goes haywire this weekend, as it is not a bank/public holiday in the
>>>>>>land of the heathen.
>>>>>
>>>>>But I thought you ran a post office, not a bank ...
>>>>>
>>>>Oh that life were that simple. Scotland loves to be different, so a
>>>>Scottish Bank holiday, and the days that banks are not open, are not
the
>>>>same thing. That would be far too easy. Why? Because, about ten
years
>>>>ago, the Scottish banks decided that it was in their interests to take
>>>>the same holidays as the other British banks, so they do, but that
does
>>>>not mean that the Scottish bank holidays are Scottish Bank holidays.
>>>>Glad you asked?
>>>
>>>Not as strange as why Brits celebrate the Queen's birthday in June???
>>>Not sunny enough in April?
>>
>>Not as strange as why Merkans go/carry on about...never mind.
>
> No, what?
>
The royal family. When I was in Raleigh, several people asked me why
Prince
Philip isn't King Philip. In their defence, the royal couple were over on
a
visit that week, so plastered all over the local news, which I think
prompted the subject matter.
On the other hand, at least three people I spoke to clearly had no clue
about various things geographical, including
* that the Alps are not in the UK
* that you have to cross water to get from the UK to the any other part of
Europe
* that there's actually quite a lot of Europe once you cross said body of
water
I might add that two of the individuals in question have degrees and
professional jobs in a multinational company. Up until that point, I
thought
it was a bit of a myth and/or a socioeconomic phenomenon... Although he
didn't ask anything quite this daft, I'm mildly suspicious that one of
them
thought "Europe" is a small country where they speak a strange English
dialect. Or possibly an enemy. Or maybe, in a parallel Asimov universe, it
really is?
But the real problem with America is that they don't understand chocolate.
Unless it's in cheesecake.
>>Not enough crap in the world?
>
-Sazz, too much crap, not enough chocolate girl
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