[SOC] West of the Pond

Tue Apr 27 18:13:39 2004

If you ask very nicely, Liz might let you back into the Empire.

You'll have to learn to play Rugby without body armour (we don't do forward
passes) and learn the rules of Cricket though.

Paul :-)

p.s. There are ten ways of being 'out' in Cricket. Anybody in the States
care to name them? ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rock" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: [SOC] West of the Pond

> Why did you folks abandon us on this side of the Atlantic?  We would have
> been better served if you were still here!
>     Kevin.   KD5ONS
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:33:10 +0100, Chris Redding
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Agreed.  The rights and wrongs of invading in the first place will be
> > debated for a long time by minds far finer than mine, and I will offer
no
> > opinion here.
> >
> > Being realistic, I think that it would be very optimistic to believe
> > that we
> > are going to create an Arab 'Camelot'.
> >
> > But, It would be an act of sheer cowardice to just pack up and leave
now,
> > and let the place, and its people, fall into hell.
> >
> > We Brits have made this mistake before - in Palestine/Israel among other
> > places - to the long-term detriment of the world in general, and
> > Manhattan
> > in particular.
> >
> > Chris G4PDJ
> > Der Twaddlemeister
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