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Date Posted: 15:45:27 04/27/04 Tue
Author: john and margaret
Author Host/IP: cache-loh-ab07.proxy.aol.com / 195.93.33.13
Subject: Re: WHA'S LIKE US
In reply to: Nancy 's message, "WHA'S LIKE US" on 17:52:13 04/11/01 Wed

>WHA'S LIKE US
>
>* The average Englishman in the home he calls his
>castle, slips into his national costume ~ a shabby
>raincoat ~ patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from
>Glasgow, Scotland.
>
>* En route to his office he strides along the English
>lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
>
>* He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented
>by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn, Scotland.
>
>*At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive
>stamps invented by John Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.
>
>* During the day he uses the telephone invented by
>Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
>
>* At home in the evening his daughter pedals her
>bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith
>of Dumfries, Scotland.
>
>* He watches the news on T.V., an invention of John
>Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item
>about the U.S. Navy, founded by John Paul Jones of
>Kirkbean, Scotland.
>
>* He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and
>in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find
>that the first man mentioned in the good book is a
>Scot ~ King James VI ~ who authorised its translation.
>
>Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity
>of the Scots.
>
>* He could take to drink but the Scots make the best
>in the world.
>
>* He could take a rifle and end it all but the
>breech~loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick
>Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.
>
>* If he escaped death, he could find himself on an
>operating table injected with penicillin, discovered
>by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given an
>anaesthetic, discovered by Sir James Young Simpson of
>Bathgate, Scotland.
>
>* Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in
>learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England,
>founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
>
>* Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a
>transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle
>him to ask . . . .
>
>* "WHA'S LIKE US"
>
>Nancy LOL

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