Bob W wrote: >>>>>>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. >>>> >>> >>>http://www.biggles.info/ >>> >>>Bob >>> >> >>Looks like a lot of fun. Did you read these as a child? I >>loved Tom Swift >>Jr. books and of course Hardy Boys. >> > > > Of course! Biggles is the very model of what an Englishman should be. > Brave, strong, taciturn, loyal, quick-witted, heroic, adventurous, > distrustful of foreigners and intellectuals, handsome, slightly afraid > of women, and faintly ludicrous. > > -- > Bob > > That's me to a "T". Except for the "faintly".
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