jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> Apud Kevin Gowen <kgowen@nogmailspam.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
> >jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> >> Apud Kevin Gowen <kgowen@nogmailspam.com> (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:
> >>> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> >>>> I read the anecdote in an autobiography of a guy who explained
> >>>> why he came to be born in the British emabassy. His parents certainly
> >>>> weren't diplomats.
> >>
> [...]
> >Actually, it's not his anecdote, as he had (presumably) no memory of the
> >circumstances of his birth.
>
> Where did I say it was his anecdote?

You mentioned it appeared in his autobiography.

> >It's secondhand from his parents.
>
> And quite possibly on his Birth Certificate or equivalent.

The fact of his birth and its location would be on the certificate. I
suspect the brouhaha about the conscription and what not was not.

> >One more
> >step and we have a bona fide urban legend on our hands.
> 
> Twaddle.

Whee!

- Kevin