From: "Dave Coull" <d.y.coull-AT-dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:44:54 GMT
Subject: Re: lingua franca/football


Andy wrote :

> In an earlier life I was a redcoat

Oh well we might have been on the same side then.
Joining the papist supporters of a prince who was
raised and educated in Rome doesn't sound like 
me at all.

>I have an ex-pat Celtic supporter in my Sociology class
>  -  what's the news on Fergus McCann and Jim'n'Kenny's 
>putative buy-out? 

See above ! 
Again, the word "schadenfreude" springs to mind....

>Q   What's the difference between Buckingham Palace 
>and the White House? 

>A   At Buckingham Palace, you only kneel on one knee. 

Yes, but Prince Andrew stated that when he proposed 
to Fergie he went down on both knees.

I guess he was really into short red curly hair.


Dave