..................The true "center of the universe" is in Elkton >Florida. Now folk in Elkton don't brag about it but it is true........Elkton >is close to the town of Hastings, you know about the "Battle of Hastings" I >presume? Elkton being the site where the "Magnum Carta" was signed by all the >local potato(e?) growers it is also 'the' major center of cabbage >production................... Now, Now, Brother Jim, some corrections are definitely in order here. The centre, ( please note the correct spelling) is London at zero meridian, all measurements are taken from there. They have a white line marked on the banks of the Thames to prove it. Now about Hastings, Battle thereof. fought in 1066, quite close to Dover, the white cliffs kind of place. Some French guy named Bill to his friends seemed to have come out on top Magna Carta: the worlds first Bill of rights. Signed on the Isle of Runnymede. A small dot in the middle of the Thames. Signed in1215. King John one of the more despotic rulers was force to sign. Potatoes. One of the old boys, from the town where I was raised, brought this wonderful staple back from South America. Sir Walter Raliegh. Also credited with the importation of tobaco. I believe in 1600. Queen Lizzy the 1st. Now for real football, called soccer by Americans, the worlds most popular sport. Alas one thing that the US cannot control, and does not have enough money to buy into. So they invented their own sport that has been rejected world wide. The rest of the world prefers sport with real men, with out body armour. Please answer a question for me. Do they stop your game every 30secs, because the attention span of the spectators is short, or the players get too tired to continue? The World Football Association finals are televised globally with several BILLON viewers watching. In fairness American football is televised north of the border in Canada, but I don't think it will replace hockey, or curling. The devil made me do this. Roger .
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