Subject: Re: British boundary markers
Date: Nov 21, 2001 @ 23:48
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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> When I crossed the Eng/Sco boundary near Jedburgh, there were two monoliths,thanx
> shaped like the menhirs obelix carries in the Asterix books. They said
> Scotland on one side and England on the other. Interestingly, the word
> england was on the scottish side (of course it is an indication to scottish
> trafic that they are entering Sassenachland).
> They are tourist objects of recent erection, purely to be photographedi n
> front of, and more difficult to move than the boundary sign at Coldstrwam,
> that some enterprising but soused Scots larrakins got arrested for trying to
> move further south a few years back.
>
> ps with an email address like 'orc', I presume you have premiere tickets for
> the Lord of the Rings release, and all the merchandising on lay-by?
>
> BW