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Re: Do you remember?

#241305
From: DG
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:06
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MacSporran schreef:
>>> For someone who is omnipotent and I assume therefore omnifiscent, the
>>> answer is obvious. They invented the game here, because we have all 
>>> the best golf courses.
>>
>> Then explain how windmills were invented in the Iran/Irak area, since 
>> they don't have the best windfarms.
> 
> When Ayatollah Khomeni took over Iran, and changed the system laid down 
> by the Shahs of Persia, part of his purge was to remove all windfarms. 
> He had been misinformed, being told that windfarms were very large 
> farting establishments. This, of course, made their windmills redundant, 
> and that is when a Dutch tourist and part-time entrepreneur, who was in 
> the area, bought them all as a job lot, and shipped them all back to the 
> Netherlands.

That's not how I remember it. Denmark and Portugal are ahead of the Netherlands 
and the US, Germany and Spain also have far more windpower.

>>>>> Kasper is the man for huge Poles! Some of us wear kilts, only to 
>>>>> distinguish
>>>>> us from our Southern neighbours. Most of us drink whisky to 
>>>>> disguise the
>>>>> flavour of haggis. I've been watering the garden every day for the 
>>>>> last two
>>>>> weeks; did I miss something!
>>>>
>>>> You forgot that spot right underneath your window. We Dutch people
>>>> need that spot for the 800th anniversary of golf. Have some more
>>>> whisky, haggis, or better even, have both!
>>>
>>> *Fills watering can with whisky*. Now the grass should come up half 
>>> cut. (That joke was supplied by Chic Murray, deceased Scottish 
>>> comedian, who now probably just uses his surname).
>>>
>> Where does he rank on a Krankies to Connolly scale? Those are the only 
>> two Scottish comedy acts I know from the top of my head.
> 
> That conjures up a great picture! Scottish comedy acts emitting from 
> Danny's head. Billy Connolly got a large percentage of his material and 
> ideas from Chic Murray, who was a very, dry, droll and exceedingly funny 
> comedian; whereas the krankies are a complete embarrassment to our 
> national pride.

Wasn't the little boy/chick named the most Scottish person or something?

I looked up a bit of Chic Murray and the closest thing I can come up with is 
Roger Dangerfield. Chic seems more mellow though.

-- 
Danny.
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Subject: Re: Do you remember?
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