--- In [email protected], "Dave Larrington" <legs_la...@...>
wrote:
>
> I suspect the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings may have
woken 
> them up a bit too.  In a previous life I worked for a US bank, whose
main US 
> data centre was next door to the WTC.  When the bomb went off, our
phones in 
> London were suddenly red-hot with fear-crazed Americans shouting "Oh my 
> Gaaaad, it's terrifying!  We're all gonna die!" and such.
> 
> Having twenty-odd years of being regularly prevented from going
about our 
> business by embittered Irishman trying to blow stuff up, we took great 
> pleasure in winding up our American cow-orkers :-)
> 
> -- 
> Dave Larrington
> <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
> It is not possible to call a complex number from a phone box.

Our Lodger had to spend a weekend entertaining some American
colleagues. They spent the time in the hotel taking antibiotics 'just
in case'.
 Are all Americans paranoid?
Sue 


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