On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:16:09 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:30:54 +0900, Declan Murphy
>> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>> inscribed:
>> 
>> 
>>>Michael Cash wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:07:57 +0900, Declan Murphy
>>>><declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>>>inscribed:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Murgi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>I wouldn't worry too much. I suspect Ed just wanted a bit of peace and
>>>>>>>quiet and a cuppla irritant free weeks before the TEEMING HORDES INVADE
>>>>>>>his corner for the apricot blossoms. The last thing needed in such times
>>>>>>>are plagues of pollies with screeching speakers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I don't think that anybody needs to worry for a long time. The bicycle and
>>>>>>pants pisser will increasingly get pissed day by day until he can't stand it
>>>>>>anymore and heads back to the airport. It's not just the old farts with
>>>>>>white gloves who frustrate him. Maybe he couldn't succeed in picking up a
>>>>>>girl at Gaspanic...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>BTW, I am not aware of any politicians with white gloves driving around
>>>>>>during this season.
>>>>>
>>>>>There are some posters here who don't live in the big smoke.
>>>>
>>>>Birmingham Alabygodbama?
>>>
>>>Is there such a place?
>> 
>> Yes, and it's nickname is (or used to be) "The Big Smoke".
>
>Interesting. The residents of dogpatch not only borrowed the name of 
>their city from blighty, but they borrowed its nickname as well?

Dogpatch is in Arkansas, not Alabygodbama.

Birmingham Alabygodbama was once home to some steel mills, which is
where they got the nickname.





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Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College