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Article #10525Re: Question?
From: David Buttery
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:09
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:09
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Ben Howard wrote on 19 Dec 2000: > An interesting window on modern civilization's distance from the real >world. Piracy is still a major problem on the high seas even in this day >and age... I guess England just forgot about it because pirates don't >attack English warships anymore. Actually, part of it is probably because the British (not English, if you please) merchant fleet is now so small any self-respecting pirate would laugh at it... Seriously, though, the Royal Navy is regularly employed in intercepting drug smugglers at sea, which are probably the nearest we have to pirates in the Western world these days. -- David. (GPLRank handicap: -5.92) The GPL Scrapyard - http://www.hillclimbfan.f2s.com "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.
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