From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 26 Sep 2006 08:30 Ian Burton <notvalid(a)notvalid.com> wrote: > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate" <this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1hm8z8p.rycicjb4dshiN%this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk... > > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > >> David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city > >> south and > >> deansgate wrote: > >> > >> > James Silverton <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote: > >> > > >> > [] > >> > > >> >>You can get what the French call English bread for toast etc. > >> > > >> > > >> > At least at the Parisian cafe we breakfasted in on Saturday morning, it > >> > was called "special organic" bread or something like that. :) It was > >> > perfectly fine, but not unlike a slice of wholewheat bread I'd expect > >> > from one of the better loafs from Tesco. :) > >> > > >> > However, boiled egg with _soldiers_, that was something I hadn't had > >> > since I was a child! :) > >> > >> Huh? Translation, please - for the benfit of us ignorant > >> Americans who've never encountered that particular delicacy? > > > > Read further down! :) What do you call them where you're from? > > I've never come across these soldiers in the US. I'm even more surprised > I've never heard my close friends in Yorkshire mention them. It could be a Scottish thing. For all I know, it could even be a Clackmannanshire thing! -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 26 Sep 2006 08:30 B Vaughan <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:03 +0200, Dave Frightens Me > <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > > >I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian > >culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is > >much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. > > I don't think you know the US very well. That's what I've been thinking too, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: Dave Frightens Me on 26 Sep 2006 09:13 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:30:06 +0100, this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: >B Vaughan <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:03 +0200, Dave Frightens Me >> <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: >> >> >I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian >> >culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is >> >much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. >> >> I don't think you know the US very well. > >That's what I've been thinking too, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. Why did you even add that comment? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 26 Sep 2006 09:14 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:21:07 +0200, B Vaughan<me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:03 +0200, Dave Frightens Me ><deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > >>I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian >>culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is >>much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. > >I don't think you know the US very well. Enforcement of many laws is >much more rigorous in the US than in Italy, and it is that, and public >opinion that keeps people on the straight and narrow. Ummm... isn't that consistent with what I was saying? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 26 Sep 2006 09:10
Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:30:06 +0100, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of > the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote: > > >B Vaughan <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:10:03 +0200, Dave Frightens Me > >> <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > >> > >> >I was passing comment on the differences between US and Italian > >> >culture in regards to the observation of laws. An unpopular law is > >> >much more likely to be observed in the USA than Italy in my opinion. > >> > >> I don't think you know the US very well. > > > >That's what I've been thinking too, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. > > Why did you even add that comment? Because I had been wondering if I was the only person reading who thought that way. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org |