Re: The BBC name.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Niall O Broin wrote:

> > And many UK'ers might take umbrage at being called European.
> > Or an island.
>
> Can't fight geography. Great Britain IS an island, and it does lie off the
> coast of mainland Europe, with whose history it has been inextricably linked,
> largely because it has been at war with just about all of it at one stage or
> another.

I'm sorry to point out that to most british people, this is backwards.. it
is EUROPE who lies by the cost of england..

Churchill said something along the line of:
"Storm on the Channel, Continent isolated."
(and corrent me if i'm wrong, that's a double translation..)

incidentally, that seems to sum up pretty nicely the mentality on that
side of the channel :o)

Jok
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