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   From: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk   
      
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   rrusston@hotmail.com writes:   
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   > In Britain they will still refer to people,  fat people especially as   
   >being "so many stone". And they used a lot of units we never did in   
   >daily matters.   
      
   Not just fat people - "seven stone weakling" is a not-unknown   
   expression.   
   []   
   >(excluding the US and Canada) and Japan, drive on the wrong side of   
   >the road, AS COMPARED TO_EVERYWHERE_. Sorry, but THAT is weird. The   
      
   It's not the wrong side, it's the left side (-:.   
      
   >Irish would do well to switch. Boston is FAR more important to them   
   >than London!   
      
   I was about to agree with you, then I remembered that they have a land   
   border with the UK, and not with Boston. And they're more likely to   
   bring their car to England, too.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   It was kind of Wagnerian in that it was totally for blokes, but it didn't have   
   difficult woodwind passages. Stuart Maconie (on "Tommy") in Radio Times, 14-20   
   November 2009.   
      
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