Subject: Re: British boundary markers<br/>
Date: Nov 21, 2001 @ 23:48<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1491441907">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; When I crossed the Eng/Sco boundary near Jedburgh, there were two monoliths, <br/>
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&gt; shaped like the menhirs obelix carries in the Asterix books. They said <br/>
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&gt; Scotland on one side and England on the other. Interestingly, the word <br/>
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&gt; england was on the scottish side (of course it is an indication to scottish <br/>
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&gt; trafic that they are entering Sassenachland).<br/>
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&gt; They are tourist objects of recent erection, purely to be photographedi n <br/>
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&gt; front of, and more difficult to move than the boundary sign at Coldstrwam, <br/>
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&gt; that some enterprising but soused Scots larrakins got arrested for trying to <br/>
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&gt; move further south a few years back.<br/>
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&gt; <br/>
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&gt; ps with an email address like &#39;orc&#39;, I presume you have premiere tickets for <br/>
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&gt; the Lord of the Rings release, and all the merchandising on lay-by?<br/>
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&gt; <br/>
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&gt; BW<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>thanx<br/>
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dream on<br/>
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& now i will have to read that too<br/>
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unless you can give me another of your snapshot synopses<br/>
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actually the full address you dont usually see is better yet<br/>
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