🚀 go-pugleaf

Tim Starr <timstarr@netcom.com>
wrote in article <timstarrEx4xAt.2GL@netcom.com>...
> In article <35c8f9bf.4654979@news.clara.net>,
> Marc Living <marc@equity.BOUNCEBACK.clara.net> wrote:
> >On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:43:24 +0100, m'learned friend shug
> ><shug@shug.naespam.co.uk> made the following submissions:

> >>Where do you get that idea? Don't tell me you think England=Britain

> >He is actually informing you of the origin of the word "limey" - which
> >comes from the fact that the Royal Navy discovered that eating limes
> >would prevent scurvy.

> >Since the Royal Navy was a *British* institution, he was gently asking
> >you why you say that Scots, Welsh or Irish would not share the credit.
> >In short - that it is *you* who is equating England with Britain here.

> >And the shameful thing is that you had to be told this by an
> >American:and didn't understand even when you were told.

> Precisely.

We all believe everything Americans say on principle.
Especially when they are talking about their favourite
subject, other cultures and what is wrong with them.