> > There's a lot of sugar beets grown here also. Sometimes > they're laying all > over the highway when they bounce out of the semi trucks that > carry them. > > Tom C. >
Tricky stuff, sugarbeet. Biggles and Ginger were once driving through Northern France on their way to or from Le Touquet aerodrome and were considerably inconvenienced by beetroots on the road. There was even a picture of them in a lovely old roadster, avoiding beetroot. Ginger must have been driving because I can distinctly remember Biggles saying "Watch out for betteraves, Ginger!", and that's how I learned the French for beetroot. I owe it all to Capt. W. E. Johns. I never understood why he didn't just say "Watch out for beetroots, Ginger!". Perhaps he was trying to impress Ginger with his cosmopolitanism and keen eyesight. But what if Ginger didn't know what betterave meant? It could have led to a nasty accident, a long visit to the A&E department, and some difficult conversations with Ginger's lawyer. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
