On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> As in the old joke - the difference between Americans and Europeans > is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while Europeans > think that 100 miles is a long way. I remember as a kid, reading in some English Boys' Annual (of some sort) about a train setting a record from London to Glasgow, and talking like it was from one end of the earth to the other. I was impressed until I realized that it was about 400 miles - about the distance from Montreal to Toronto... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
