Received: by 10.180.107.38 with SMTP id gz6mr492336wib.0.1349448267636; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni134164349wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.85.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lesley Weston Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett Subject: Re: [I] monarchy and the uk constitution Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:44:26 -0700 Organization: Stack Usenet News Service Lines: 44 Sender: lsp...@s01060026bb5e9784.vc.shawcable.net Message-ID: References: <4u1j6811pv6r3db1ostt6tvjbik6r0p4od@4ax.com> <26jp68ptlfdvls7fiv88o13iqcq60c2l79@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s01060026bb5e9784.vc.shawcable.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: mud.stack.nl 1349448267 81832 24.84.111.53 (5 Oct 2012 14:44:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@stack.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:44:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <26jp68ptlfdvls7fiv88o13iqcq60c2l79@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10-03-12 4:40 PM, Free Lunch wrote: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:29:58 -0500, Larry Moore > wrote in alt.fan.pratchett: > >> On 2012-10-03, Lesley Weston wrote: >>> On 10-02-12 8:46 AM, larry wrote: >>>> On 02/10/12 09:58 AM, Lesley Weston wrote: >>>> >>>>> But we knew about the fish, and it was a strategic place in the Great >>>>> Game, which was well under way at that time. And anyway, just for >>>>> tidiness' sake. >>>>> >>>>> Lesley. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think the {CT}{sz}ar would have loved to see the UK overextend their >>>> supply lines. >>> >>> Overextend how? We were about to acquire BC officially instead of just >>> de facto, and we already had everything else in between all three coasts >>> (in among? Doesn't sound right). We didn't get Newfoundland for quite >>> some time after that, but that's on the other side. >>> >>> Lesley. >>> >> >> Sorry, in 1867 ... >> Canada was the St Lawrence River valley of Quebec, most of the Great >> Lakes drainage basin in Ontario, Cape Breton, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia >> and had 3.5 million people. Everything else now Canada was a) a British >> colony and b) a gleam in John A's eye. I'm not sure which 'we' you >> are using. > > Didn't Lesley grow up British? > She did. You can take the Brit out of Britain [1], but you can never take Britain out of the Brit. [1] Leaving Ain, which is French. I don't think that helps. Lesley. -- This address is real, but to reach me use leswes att shaw dott ca