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- From: gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
- Subject: Re: humor in England
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- Organization: Pig Heaven, Coventry, UK
- References: <3213@ucl-cs.uucp> <BxtE7J.Kuw@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:50:46 GMT
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- In article <BxtE7J.Kuw@cck.coventry.ac.uk> apj003@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley) writes:
- >In article <3213@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
- >>
- >><< It's you that's sad! Parsley liquor on your pie and mash is bloody
- >><< lovely and I won't hear a word said against it. All this from a bloke
- >><< who's moved to a dump like Coventry, the only place I know that makes M1
- >><< service stations look attractive! More concrete than you could shake a
- >><< stick at.
- >It can't be worse than central London! Sleezy streets full of degenerates...
- >people with accents that sound like they stepped out of one of those 30's
- >movies about cheeky cockney chappies and jolly good toffs.. rubbish piled
- >everywhere... wall-to-wall Iranians and other shady arabs trying to rob you
- > of your parking place... nowhere to park and a fight to the death to buy
- >a bag of sweets or a newspaper from bad tempered illiterate foreign illegals.
-
- Apart from the grossly offensive over generalisations, I'm inclined to
- agree with you.
-
- Actually, I don't think Gordon wrote that bit about how bad Coventry is,
- but I'll agree with whoever wrote that article, too. I'm here through
- no choice of my own, but I prefer it to London. Outside the city centre
- there ain't all that much concrete at all. Unlike London, where it gets
- worse the further out you get into the suburbs.
-
- Coventry may be a dump, but at least it's a small dump. And I don't have to
- travel for one and a half hours to see my friends who live five miles away.
- And we don't get green puke poured on our chips, neither.
-
- >Not that I'm biased or anything, but I reckon England starts at Watford Gap.
- >Heading north.
-
- I'm afraid you'd have to stop when it becomes Scotland, though, or they won't
- be very happy at all.
-
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- Ridley McIntyre - Ronin Ironpig
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