Christ Marin, are you trying to ruin the list. When PC takes a hold here,
its time to sell the trucks and walk.
Aloha
Peter
>From: "Faure, Marin" <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: "'Land Rover Mail Group'" <LRO@Works.Team.Net>
>Subject: LRO: On being British
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:57:09 -0700
>
>In a recent short post about the British, I made
>a statement to the effect that the British don't take
>an Irishman seriously unless the Irishman is armed.
>Perhaps I should have put a :-) after that comment.
>I was trusting that you lot would read it with the
>humor that was intended, but perhaps not. So before
>anyone rips off a reply accusing me of being anti-Irish,
>let me assure you I was simply quoting an old
>joke, not making some sort of political statement.
>
>Actually, I stole the thing verbatim from a book I read
>by the travel writer Paul Theroux, on his
>journey in the mid-1980s around the coast of Great
>Britain. The book is called "The Kingdom by the
>Sea," and it's worth reading if you enjoy the
>cultures and personalities that comprise the UK.
>
>Anyway, if anyone by chance did take offense at the
>statement, none was intended.
>___________________________
>C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
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