[DMCForum] Re: American Clangers (Martin Gutkowski)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just checked -- University of Stirling is still very much in business.

My Uncle is actually ordained Episcopalian, but Church of England
recognized the Anglican Communion (he's still an American citizen
BTW). I believe his title over there was "Vicar". He was also the
registrar of various government documents.

In the Lake Country, Barrow-in-Furness is simply called "Barrow".

My ex-wife really is charming, if not wrapped completely tightly.

I have travelled through England, Wales, and Scotland ("Great
Britain") but never Northern Ireland ("The United Kingdom").

Dartmoor is technically a forest, but it looks more like a moor to me,
so I don't call it a "forest". Seems demeaning to places that actually
have trees.

I believe the county is known simply as "Devon". I use the word
"Devonshire" to refer to that whole peninsula (Devon, Cornwall, etc). 

The cliffs outside Wick are indeed quite steep, and the North Sea is
very impressive crashing against them.

Okay, I give -- what clangs?

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> content22207 wrote:
> 
> > Not to be particular, but I spent a year at University in Stirling,
> > Scotland. Several times I have visited my Uncle -- a retired COE
> > minister living outside Barrow (in Furness). My charming ex-wife and I
> > used to travel to Great Britain every 18 months on average. Altogether
> > I have spent more than 12 months in your fine country since 1980, and
> > have travelled all the way from Dartmoor (Devonshire) to the cliffs
> > outside Wick, Scotland.
> 
> I tell you what, Bill. You've just dropped an absolute classic American 
> clanger in that last paragraph. The sort that's continually joked about 
> on British TV when taking the piss out of George Bush (or any given 
> American in the firing line at the time - Bush tends to cop it most 
> though and I feel safe using him as an example because I get the 
> impression most of you guys think he's a pratt too)
> 
> Do you know what particular booboo you made?
> 
> >
> > And Routemasters have been identified to me by your own countrypeople
> > as "London Buses". Not the much more prevalent Leyland units -- which
> > lack the open platform and are simply called "double decker buses --
> > but Routemasters in particular.
> 
> OK Routemasters are London buses. Your ambiguous statement in a
previous 
> message implied all double deckers are london buses, which is bollocks 
> but was apparently not what you said and you're never ambiguous.
> 
> I don't think there are any other bus companies in the UK who run 
> double-deckers painted red
> 
> Not all London Buses are Routemasters.
> 
> I tend to use the tube and walk around London because walking is 
> generally quicker than using the roads, but the last time I did get
on a 
> bus, it -was- a routemaster and the bus was not allowed to move until 
> the rear deck was clear.
> 
> And my point about pollution remains valid
> 
> Martin

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