Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Glenelg, was: New Zealand palindromes
Date: Dec 01, 2001 @ 20:47
Author: Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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Grant Hutchison wrote:
> . . . But the end result seems to be a lot of Scots names around the
> world. It is, for instance, a shorter trip between Dundee and Glencoe
> in South Africa than it is between Dundee and Glen Coe in Scotland.
> And an item on our local Scottish news a few nights back told the
> story of a man from Aberdeen who's making a hobby of visiting other
> Aberdeens - he had covered 30-odd so far, with a few more still to go.

I visited New York once. Contrary to popular belief, it's in
Lincolnshire.

Imagine my thought on learning that the BATF troops who attacked the
Branch Davidians had trained at a place called Glencoe (in Georgia
iirc).


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