Paul Heslop wrote:
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> elag wrote:
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> > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > elag wrote:
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> > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > Sore feet?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > and the brain thing. This has helped me spread my wings, this camera...
> > > > > > > but still I'm battling with the urge to run off home at any second.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ah... it helps to put things in perspective. I walk 5 miles to get to
> > > > > > the Guggenheim Museum and that's still in Manhattan. Ten miles is
> > > > > > surely no great distance w/in greater London. Spin the globe a few
> > > > > > times and 10 miles seems like a walk around the block.
> > > > >
> > > > > In greater London ten miles would be pretty good,
> > > >
> > > > Seems to be about 10 miles from Kew Gardens to St. Paul's...
> > > >
> > > > > but here, ten miles is the nearest big city :O)
> > > >
> > > > Which is?
> > >
> > > Newcastle.
> >
> > I should have surmised that... I've always liked using that old saw
> > about the relative plentitude of coal...
> >
> > From: elag (elag@concentric.net)
> > Subject: Re: Get VIAGRA Online
> > Newsgroups: alt.bored
> > Date: 1998/10/08
> >
> > An idea: buy the stuff and sell it to high school students. Bringing
> > coals to
> > Newcastle, you say?... These kids buy Nike hats... Hootie and the Blowfish
> > CD's and Mountain Dew... with the proper marketing they'll buy ANYTHING!
> > s-so-o sleepy...
>
> :O) Of course there are hardly any coal mines left here, so it's more
> 'bringing call centers to Newcastle" now
Not a surprising turn, I guess. As long as the brown ales hold out no
one will miss all that coal.
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