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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!tekgen!interceptor!davet
  2. From: davet@interceptor.cds.tek.com (Dave Tharp CDS)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
  4. Subject: Re: Nationalized Lawyers  was Re: pitch fo
  5. Message-ID: <1899@tekgen.bv.tek.com>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 20:11:39 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan25.135630.4790@bnr.uk> <1k3klnINN1n6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
  8. Sender: news@tekgen.bv.tek.com
  9. Organization: Tektronix - Colorado Data Systems, Englewood, CO
  10. Lines: 29
  11.  
  12. In article <1k3klnINN1n6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> egreen@East.Sun.COM writes:
  13. >In article 4790@bnr.uk, npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar) writes:
  14. >>
  15. >>Our postal service is the envy of most countries.  91% (?) of first class
  16. >>letters are delivered by the following day, even from Cornwall to the 
  17. >>Highlands of Scotland.  
  18. >
  19. >Oooooh!
  20. >
  21. >Real nifty accomplishment, there, Nick... considering the entire UK
  22. >will fit nicely inside Texas!
  23. >
  24.    You don't even need Texas, Colorado will do just fine.
  25.  
  26.  UK (including combat zone of Northern Ireland) 8.9e4 sq. mi. 5.6e7 pop.
  27.  Colorado                                      1.02e5 sq. mi. 2.5e6 pop.
  28.  
  29.  It must be country for midgets. I hear that Nick is vertically
  30. challenged.
  31.  
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  33. | Dave Tharp                      | DoD #0751   | "You can't wear out       |
  34. | davet@interceptor.CDS.TEK.COM   | MRA #151    |   an Indian Scout,        |
  35. | '88 K75S  '48 Indian Chief      | AHRMA #751  |  Or its brother the Chief.|
  36. | '75 R90S(#151) '68 CB450(#751)  | AMA #524737 |  They're built like rocks |
  37. | '65 R50/2/Velorex  '57 NSU Max  |             |   to take the knocks,     |
  38. |       1936 BMW R12              | (Compulsive | It's the Harleys that     |
  39. | My employer has no idea.        |   Joiner)   |   give you grief."        |
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