[Gllug] RE: [Glut] Official country code for Britain = GB or UK?

[Stephen Harker]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:48:15PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 12:27, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > No, I say London.  Anyone who doesn't know where that is, or thinks I mean
> > > some irrelevant little village in the colonies which copied the name is not
> > > worth talking to.
> > WHAT! I hope you are taking the P and are just pretending to be  some
> > ignorant, arrogant Englishman who hasn't even seen his own country
> > properly, let alone some "irrelevant" colony. Always makes me laugh. "Oh
> > yes. Australia, Isn't that where we sent all the convicts?"
> 
> Yes, after Virginia filled up :-)
> 
> >                                                             Well the
> > crooks had the last laugh didn't they. Where would you rather be.
> > Skegness or Bondi Beach? :-)
> 
> I'd prefer to be in London than either.

Fair enough. There's no accounting for taste. But I actually meant seaside 
holiday destinations which London doesn't quite come under. Perhaps it was 
a bad analogy.  

-- 
Stephen Harker
steve at pauken.co.uk



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