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Subject: ROFLMAO
Author: Roberdin	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:44:00 11/15/04 Mon In reply to: Davey Blunkett 's message, "A letter from the British Home Office to the People of America" on 18:34:35 11/15/04 Mon [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 18:44:03 11/15/04 Mon

A French mate of mine sent me this a few days ago. It is evidently 'doing the rounds', like that thing where you go to Google and type in "weapons of mass destruction" and click 'I'm feeling lucky' and get taken to that funny page. I think that's still up and running, if there is anyone in the world who hasn't yet tried it.

I have but two arguments with it:

1) There is a place called "Devonshire", as in the Duke of Devonshire, HMS Devonshire, and Devonshire Cream Teas. Calling it 'Devon' is a modern affectation by the west-country bumkins who run the Council, who are too addled with cider to spell "shire" at the end of their county's name, involving, as it does, a particularly tricky combination of letters.

2) Why on Earth do Americans seem to think that we use the metric system? I know that this horse has been flogged dead elsewhere on this forum, but Yanks come over here and see miles on the roadsigns and buy pints and can tell people their heights in feet and inches and weights in pounds and everyone knows what they're talking about, and still they go home and say, "Hey, Billy-Bob-Joe, that metric system sure is awful quaint."

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