--- 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
