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Article #241305Re: Do you remember?
From: DG
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:06
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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