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Article #5517British Pound Coin
From: Paul Moor
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00
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NF>PM> I hope you heard Alistair Cooke's eloquent - and thoroughly NF> >disgusted - BBC Letter from America summing up the games. NF> > At one point in it, after listing several instances of un- NF> >speakable oafishness (e.g., the runner who in spite of declared NF> >disqualification refused to leave the starting blocks), he asked, NF> >"Where were these people brought up?" NF> I hope the disqualified runner wasn't Britain's own Linford Christie, NF>who was indeed bounced from the 100 meter dash for two false starts! Quite possibly. Cooke didn't identify him or his origin, but did say, to the audience of his BBC Letter from America, something elliptical like "And I'll leave you to guess his country of origin". --- � OLX 2.2 � Bonnie Parker graduated from high school with honors. � RNET 2.10r: ILink: SPPE � Pineville, NC � 704-543-3984 DS 3985 V.34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: paul.moor@toadhall.com (Paul Moor) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10df74,4cf76049558bf3c5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public From: paul.moor@toadhall.com (Paul Moor) Subject: British Pound Coin Date: 1996/08/18 Message-ID: <73.7147.882@toadhall.com> X-Deja-AN: 175109887 distribution: world organization: Toad Hall � High Octane BBS � 415-595-2427 newsgroups: ca.environment