Ralp D wrote > Perhaps this discussion is being unfair. Afterall, it may be expecting > to much of our British friends. [snip stuff about MG's and VW's. . . and how the former were, well, not the best designs in the world] > Maybe that is the price of owning a Brit boat or other product. LOL. Right. It's funny. On my sailing group the discussion has recently been about how sailors often also own British cars. Both activities are dumb but fun. After talking about MG's for a while, we suddenly turned to VW's, and how we all also owned a bunch of them. . . . Now the same thing here. . . Maybe it's something in the air. . . . . No, that's just rain. . . . . I was in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, last year, and I visited an old British castle. I had been traveling with a colleague (long business trip) in the UK for a couple weeks. We had been sort of bemused by the Brits. As we approached this castle, there was a huge sign, explaining the thing. It said, and I quote: "The best way to defend a castle is to go inside and wait for help to arrive." We stood there for a minute, then started laughing hysterically. Other tourists probably thought we were drunk. I think I actually ended up on the ground rolling around. . . . Well. . . you had to be there. Brits. Gotta love 'em. Anyone for a spot of nice, warm beer . . . er, ale? Mark P.S. To all Brits: just kidding around. . . After all, you can't win EVERY revolutionary war, right? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 14:55:27 PDT
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