Roger, the underprepared instrument King, wrote:) <<"Now, Now, Brother Jim, some corrections are definitely in order here.">> Why thank you for acknowledging such Massah Jolly. <<"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.">> Quite a bit of misinformation here Mr. J................. a.) From Schaff international dictionary........... the correct spelling of center is...surprise........... center! b.) London is actually at 0 degrees,10 minutes Longitutde and 51 degrees, 30 minutes Latitude...ergo obviously not the "centre" of anything. c.) It is not a "white line", it is a white stone marker and it is located in Greenwhich (which I think is in Conneticut USA but I could be wrong) d.) The white stone marker was given to England by Shaka Zulu to comemerate the Zulu wars....... that is why it is called either 'Zulu time' or because of the notorious uncivility of the city council 'Greenwhich Mean Time'. <<"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">> No, no Roger the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1956. The cause of this battle was the desire of the local potato(e) growers and the cabbage growers to cart their goods at the same time and there not being enough cartage avalable to do both at once. The fighting started at the local trucking common in Hastings, FL and ended after Bubbas Rotreiler was shot and killed daid. Before that though the fighting swirled around many communities and even included Switzerland....which is why the Swiss are now a neutral county....not wanting to be involved in any more ugly family disputes. Bubbas dog what died, his name was SicEm, is immortified by a survey stake topped with an old Boudweiser can just outside the Elkton Bar and Grill.............course truth be told that SicEm was a nasty dog cause ever timewhat Bubba called that dog...well the danged dog just hauled off and bit the closest person to him....then there's the time where SicEm got after the Mayor and his cat, but that is jus to gruesome to tell in mixed company.............. <<"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.">> No argument here....I am so glad that your sense of true history is unimpaired on this accord. I don't know why you bring this up though? I talked about the "Magnum Carta"................ you know the one where the growers with the biggest guns and meanest dogs got the biggest trucks and teh dickens with everyone else. There might have to be some changes to the 'Magnum Carta' in the near future though cause some fool is might not being fair. Seems that Gilroy got tired of his dogs being hurt ever year and got him a really mean dog named "Gator" what won ever fight he got into. Well the local vet, a yankee good ole boy wananbe, has Gilroys dog under observation. Danged fool thinks that "Gator" is a real gator. Danged vet claims that all Gilroy did was get an alligator, cut his tail off, paint the alligator yellow and called him a 'dog'. <<"Now for real football, called soccer by Americans, the worlds most popular sport.">> Well of course it is.........but not everyone wants to participate in a sport where the only requirements are to have a ball, some nuts who like to run up and down a field, an annnoucer with great lungs and the ability to yell scoooooooooooooooooooooooooore!! several times during a game, and fans with a propensity to riot and kill each other. So to counter Soccer the more sedate Americans came up with the 'real' game of football, the more gentlemanly sport. Now Roger jus admit that you are wrong so we can go back to fussing bout anonymous posts. :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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