> > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > >Bob > > > > > > > > > > I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but it > > > sounds like an > > > interesting dialogue. :-) > > > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > >http://www.biggles.info/ > > > >Bob > > > > Looks like a lot of fun. Did you read these as a child? I > loved Tom Swift > Jr. books and of course Hardy Boys. >
Of course! Biggles is the very model of what an Englishman should be. Brave, strong, taciturn, loyal, quick-witted, heroic, adventurous, distrustful of foreigners and intellectuals, handsome, slightly afraid of women, and faintly ludicrous. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
