> > > > 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 >
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds like an interesting dialogue. :-) Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
