> > >>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. > > Which book? I think I've got them all and don't remember that. >
I can't remember. You'd better re-read them! I hope I'm not thinking of one of the Python spoofs, such as Biggle Combs His Hair. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
