Re: [NTLK] OT (sort of)

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:33:06 PDT

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On dinsdag, apr 22, 2003, at 20:24 Europe/Amsterdam, John Derbyshire
wrote:
> The amazing thing is that the English, despite having the greatest
> maritime
> tradition of any nation on earth, and after numerous attempts to win
> it, as
> yet have never managed to - the Swiss don't even have a coastline!

That part of the coastline is both funny and true, but 'the English
with the greatest maritime tradition of any nation on earth'?

I can easily think of quite a few other nationalities that roamed the
seven seas with as vengeance...

Robert Benschop

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