On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, JON PORTER wrote:
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> George neglected to mention that today is also Cornwallis Day,
> celebrating the severing of thirteen perhaps unwanted and certainly
> unruly colonies in North America from the Empire, a day usually spent
> drinking absurd quantities of rather salty tea (symbolically fished
> out of Boston harbour) and (at least locally) by watching the cricket
> (sadly on the telly, as I couldn't get tickets for Trent Bridge).
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> As you may have guessed by now ;-)
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> ~jon
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> (born and raised in the nineteenth state)
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> J. M. B. PORTER
> Department of History : University of Nottingham
> University Park : Nottingham : NG7 2RD : England
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>Interesting. . . I think I think though that I'll have to stick with
the grand American tradition of drinking beer and setting things on fire.
Erin, exiled in Cambridge
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