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British Pound Coin

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From: Paul Moor
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".

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Date: 1996/08/18
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