[Gllug] Any doubts about the EU (I know its off subject - but you've just gotta know this)

[Alistair Mann]

Thus spaketh Bruce Richardson on Thursday 01 Jul 2004 14:23:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:02:11PM +0100, Alistair wrote:
> > Dear Alain,
> >
> > Someone on your 'other list' is talking out of its backside. The protocol
> > referred to dates from 1965 (though is still effective) and accords
> > essentially 'diplomatic rights' to those on EU business; reserves to
> > other treaties how interstate crimes are handled; has nothing to say
> > about official documents and buildings (at least in ch5) and in any case
> > would under the draft constitution be superceded altogether.
>
> Another one to file alongside bendy bananas, straight cucumbers and the
> banning of swings, then.

The swings ban is actually true though, except that the ban was from CEN -- 
the 'European Standardisation Committe' -- which has nothing to do with the 
EU.

A good collection of the more amusing stories about Europe:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/press_communication/facts/index_en.htm

My favourite: famers to give pigs toys or get three months in jail.
-- 
Alistair

Today is Boomtime, the 36th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3170
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