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- From: bocmunro@bnr.co.uk (Bruce Munro)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: humor in England
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:43:31 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:
-
- Not Gordon, but me actually.
-
- >
- >>
- >><< 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...
-
- You talking about me or what? Anyway, sounds like a fun place to be to
- me. Each to his own.
-
- >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.
-
- If you take your car into Central London that's your look out. Use the
- Underground, far more convenient, and full of friendly people.
-
- >Not that I'm biased or anything, but I reckon England starts at Watford Gap.
- >Heading north.
-
- Aye, where slag heaps, steelworks and dark satanic mills are the order
- of the day.
-
- It's grim up North!
-
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