Bob W wrote: >>There's a lot of sugar beets grown here also. Sometimes >>they're laying all >>over the highway when they bounce out of the semi trucks that >>carry them. >> >>Tom C. >> > > > Tricky stuff, sugarbeet. > > Biggles and Ginger were once driving through Northern France on their > way to or from Le Touquet aerodrome and were considerably > inconvenienced by beetroots on the road. There was even a picture of > them in a lovely old roadster, avoiding beetroot. > > Ginger must have been driving because I can distinctly remember > Biggles saying "Watch out for betteraves, Ginger!", and that's how I > learned the French for beetroot. > > I owe it all to Capt. W. E. Johns. > > I never understood why he didn't just say "Watch out for beetroots, > Ginger!". Perhaps he was trying to impress Ginger with his > cosmopolitanism and keen eyesight. But what if Ginger didn't know what > betterave meant? It could have led to a nasty accident, a long visit > to the A&E department, and some difficult conversations with Ginger's > lawyer.
Which book? I think I've got them all and don't remember that. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
