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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!yorkohm!jkn
- From: jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll)
- Newsgroups: rec.kites
- Subject: Re: Flexi's and the CoE
- Keywords: Flexi, Church of England, Archbishop, Monarchy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171438.25261@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:14:38 GMT
- References: <11435@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Distribution: uk
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- In <11435@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> pat@cs.strath.ac.uk (Patrick Prosser) writes:
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-
- >The Archbishop of York flies a flexifoil ... I thought you should know this.
-
- [...]
-
- >On the BBC news last night the Rev. Dr. John Habgood, Archbishop of York,
- >was interviewed with respect to the relationship between
- >the Church of England, and the Monarchy. The interviewer also
- >mentioned as an aside that the Archbishop was a keen kite flier.
- >They then gave a 10 second clip of Dr John (the Gris Gris man?)
- >flying a 6' flexi. He was wearing all the black gear, and he
- >was flying the flexi off a pole. Absolutely wonderful, surreal,
- >the best advert I've seen for years. Gobsmacked.
-
- Does anyone out there have a video of this item? I'm a bit peeved
- that (a) being a kiteflier/flexi builder and (b) living in the fair
- city of York, I didn't know this. I have some friends who might well
- want to see this.
-
- >Patrick (a Scotsman who disnae have a flexi, and disnae want a king) Prosser
-
- john (of scottish ancestry from way back, who has a flexi,
- is making another, and likewise has no use for a king) Nicoll
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