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Yeh, but at least the buffer zone is back in place. They never did manage to remove the Rutland county border signs. An Old Stamfordian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:10 AM Subject: Re: Languages project - WCW remake Oh, Dave (without the K, sorry), that's left me helpless with laughter in the dead-dark middle of the night ... & sprawling from same. I would've turned back, no questions uttered ... Linconshire? By gad! A closed book as far as I'm concerned any day of the whatever. So I could just as well have been one of those driving-wheel-turners back and forth. Lincolnshire? What a relief not to have been there! Best Árni on 4/17/03 3:01 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hoi Ibsen (just picked up on this) > > this is Bircumshaw speaking (correct spelling even from me - all the poor > sods who bear that spelling of what is quite a common name are > consanguineous with me, life's hard, ain't it? But no 'k's in mine please) > Anyhow, you just reminded me of a 'Candid Camera' spoof when I was a kid, > one day they set a team out on the border between Lincolnshire and another > county and stopped drivers to tell them that 'Lincolnshire was closed > today'. The beauty of it was that no-one disagreed and the drivers went off > in the opposite direction with looks that seemed suspiciously like relief on > their faces. > > Best > > Dave > > > > David Bircumshaw > > Leicester, England > > Home Page > > A Chide's Alphabet > > Painting Without Numbers > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:55 AM > Subject: Re: Languages project - WCW remake > > > on 4/16/03 11:42 PM, Anny Ballardini at [log in to unmask] wrote: > >> Great man from the North, I love to be praised by you. > > Aw, Anny! Yu make it sound like I'm a polar bear or even the abominable > snowman. By no means Himalayan, tho abominable I may well be, but believe > you me, I HATE snow. And I'm a softie. Any day of the week. But praising you > I'll keep doing (while listening to Weather Report's Birdland). > > Re: THE NORTH. (And this harks back to my living next door to Birkumshaw > without either of us knowing it). Once, when driving along the motorway from > Leicester to Lincoln (England) in mid November, the most prominent threat > enroute the nearly deserted many-laned road were absolutely HUGE roadsigns > appearing every so often that simply said 'THE NORTH' and an arrow beneath > it, pointing ahead. Very scary, very threatening, very lonely, I felt. > Driving alone towards THE NORTH is probly the scariest thing I ever did ... > > And in Lincoln I was met by this huge Italian woman who took me around the > sites (in the cold evening) and delivered me to my reading on time at the > hippie Sun Café! So, I guess my point is, I'll stumble on Italy wherever I > go (or drive). > > Best > > Árni > > > -- > Árni Ibsen > Stekkjarkinn 19, > 220 Hafnarfjördur, > Iceland > > tel.: +354-555-3991 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/