P� l�rdag, 18. oktober 2003, kl. 20:27, skrev Bob Walkden:
Hi,
Saturday, October 18, 2003, 1:45:09 PM, you wrote:
On 18/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
The difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think a hundred years is a long time, and Europeans think that a hundred miles is a long distance.
What's a European? I'm British!
From a British newspaper a hundred years ago:
"Storm in the English channel, the Continent is isolated"
Actually there was a newspaper headline during WWII mentioning that
communications were down between England and France during the occupation
and it went something like this:
Lines Cut to France - Europe Isolated
or something like that....
the way I heard it was "Thick fog in Channel - Europe isolated".
Maybe they are all true. With all this isolation, no wonder we have become a bit strange, metric etc... :-)
DagT
