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Re: Brickish Museum of Natural History (BMNH)
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:43:04 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Richard Parsons (<FqDw30.Ewv@lugnet.com>) wrote at
12:58:40
(haven't looked at pics yet, cos it's 'spensive time)
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> Richard II's Hanseatic Cog is built, and the ex King has escaped his prison,
> embarked on his three hour tour, headed for France. The wind is high, and
> fair for France. Little does he know his next landfall will be almost 500
> years hence ;-) Name for the cog? I understand that 14C private vessels
> pressed into military service had castles added and their name suffixed by
> de la Tour, a reference to the Tower of London near which the mods were
> made. So how does "Soggy Chip de la Tour" sound? (the soggy chip appearing
> to be one of England's chief export items).
Sounds like Soup du Jour :-)
Given that spuds hadn't been invented yet, possibly a trifle
anachronistic. But given the temporal route of this story, not
necessarily a problem :-)
And I deeply resemble the nasturtium that the soggy chip is one of the
best things to come out of Brickain. We do quite a good line in empire
builders: one size fits all. Once we've finished ;-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) Bogus frat! (now that there is an expletive from Trek - if I cop any flack over it, any flack at all, I swear I'm going to start thumping people.) Not only have caused Tony deep resemblement, I've committed a nasturtium! <<rummage, rummage, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Brickish Museum of Natural History (BMNH)
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| Gentlemen, Wouldn't want you thinking I was losing interest... I just added a couple of 'on the shelf' snaps of the BMNH. I have a suspicion that it may end up being a local office, in Port Block, built to help deal with the Doolittle threat. (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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