Magda

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:56:41 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Mika
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... nitram wrote:
... >
... > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:54:14 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
... > wrote:
... >
... > >On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:44:38 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
... > >some electrons, so they looked like this :
... > >
... > > ... On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:32:54 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
... > > ... wrote:
... > > ...
... > > ... >On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:28:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
... > > ... >some electrons, so they looked like this :
... > > ... >
... > > ... >
... > > ... > ... Don't we all?
... > > ... > ...
... > > ... > ... I'm not sure what you would get out of it.
... > > ... >
... > > ... >I don't live in Germany. Problem solved.
... > > ...
... > > ... If you don't live in Germany how do you expect to get deported by the
... > > ... racist regime?
... > >
... > >I'm mistaken for a German from time to time - why would they deport me ?
... > >Una fatsa una razza, my dear !...
... >
... > Didn't I see you on Tutti Frutti once?
...
... As the 'Apricot'???

No, he didn't.

Nitram

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:50:56 +0100, Mika
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Padraig Breathnach wrote:
    >>
    >> Jesper Lauridsen <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> >On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> >>
    >> >> And l'hexagone is not all of France.
    >> >
    >> >Islands are irrelevant.
    >>
    >> Are you really posting from Denmark?
    >Maybe he's from Jutland.

or near Perth, Oz, where there is also a Denmark.
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Martin

Nitram

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:51:53 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>Padraig Breathnach wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Jesper Lauridsen <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>
    >>> >On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> >>
    >>> >> And l'hexagone is not all of France.
    >>> >
    >>> >Islands are irrelevant.
    >>>
    >>> Are you really posting from Denmark?
    >>Maybe he's from Jutland.
    >Nicknamed "The Stump".

Boston?
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Martin

Tim Challenger

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:15:56 +0100, nitram wrote:

    > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:51:53 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>Padraig Breathnach wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> Jesper Lauridsen <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> >On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>> >>
    >>>> >> And l'hexagone is not all of France.
    >>>> >
    >>>> >Islands are irrelevant.
    >>>>
    >>>> Are you really posting from Denmark?
    >>>Maybe he's from Jutland.
    >>Nicknamed "The Stump".
    >
    > Boston?

That's the Stomp. Dummy. ;-)
--
Tim C.

James Silverton

The Reids wrote:
    > Following up to Padraig Breathnach
    >>> Islands are irrelevant.
    >> Are you really posting from Denmark?
    > Calm down P, he said "islands", not "Ireland's" :-)

On the other hand, according to my atlas, a major part of Denmark is
islands. Major ones are Fyn, Lolland, Falster and Sjælland. Copenhagen
is on the last! An island does not stop being so if a bridge is built
does it?


--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland, USA

Nitram

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:20:39 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:15:56 +0100, nitram wrote:
    >> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:51:53 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>Padraig Breathnach wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Jesper Lauridsen <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>> >On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>>> >>
    >>>>> >> And l'hexagone is not all of France.
    >>>>> >
    >>>>> >Islands are irrelevant.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Are you really posting from Denmark?
    >>>>Maybe he's from Jutland.
    >>>Nicknamed "The Stump".
    >>
    >> Boston?
    >That's the Stomp. Dummy. ;-)

T-panty?
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Martin

The Reids

Following up to Padraig Breathnach

    >>>>Islands are irrelevant.
    >>>Are you really posting from Denmark?
    >>Calm down P, he said "islands", not "Ireland's" :-)
    >Okay, I've got my breath back.

As a fellow islander I know how you felt (although on an island
that thinks the continent is cut off if there is fog in the
channel).
--
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Emilia

Magda <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > On 3 Feb 2005 23:08:02 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Emilia
    > <[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
    > this :
    >
    > ... Magda <[email protected]> wrote in
    > ... news:[email protected]:
    > ...
    > ... > On 3 Feb 2005 21:06:52 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Emilia
    > ... > <[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked
    > like ... > this :
    > ... >
    > ... > ... > ... Because the story took place in Barcelos.
    > ... > ... > ... Barcelos is in northern Portugal near Braga.
    > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... > What story ?
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... Google is your friend!
    > ... >
    > ... > I don't see anything about this bird being the symbol of
    > Portugal. ...
    > ... "This bird" is not the symbol of Portugal.
    > ... It represents a legend (folklore story) and some consider it the
    > unofficial ... symbol of Portugal like the "Coq Gaulois" or the
    > "Mannekin Pis". Did you ... not read the thread?
    >
    > I read the legend. Very cute, but nothing about symbols in there.
    >

Obviously. It wouldn't be said in the story.

Emilia

Magda <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:05:26 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "szozu"
    > <hoppbunny at hotmail com> arranged some electrons, so they looked
    > like this :
    >
    >
    > ... > ... "This bird" is not the symbol of Portugal.
    > ... > ... It represents a legend (folklore story) and some consider
    > it the ... unofficial
    > ... > ... symbol of Portugal like the "Coq Gaulois" or the "Mannekin
    > Pis". Did ... you
    > ... > ... not read the thread?
    > ... >
    > ... > I read the legend. Very cute, but nothing about symbols in
    > there. ...
    > ... Here you go: O Galo de Barcelos is the unofficial symbol of
    > Portugal. ...
    > ... http://portomission.com/Reference/Cu...eBarcelos.html
    > ...
    > ... Lana
    >
    > It says so on Internet, so it must be true, right ? Particularly
    > coming from a well-known sect...


I'm sure you know better.

Magda

On 4 Feb 2005 18:40:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Emilia <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Magda <[email protected]> wrote in
... news:[email protected]:
...
... > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:05:26 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "szozu"
... > <hoppbunny at hotmail com> arranged some electrons, so they looked
... > like this :
... >
... >
... > ... > ... "This bird" is not the symbol of Portugal.
... > ... > ... It represents a legend (folklore story) and some consider
... > it the ... unofficial
... > ... > ... symbol of Portugal like the "Coq Gaulois" or the "Mannekin
... > Pis". Did ... you
... > ... > ... not read the thread?
... > ... >
... > ... > I read the legend. Very cute, but nothing about symbols in
... > there. ...
... > ... Here you go: O Galo de Barcelos is the unofficial symbol of
... > Portugal. ...
... > ... http://portomission.com/Reference/Cu...eBarcelos.html
... > ...
... > ... Lana
... >
... > It says so on Internet, so it must be true, right ? Particularly
... > coming from a well-known sect...
...
... I'm sure you know better.

Do you belong to a sect ?

Jesper Lauridsen

On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Well, yes and no. The expression is widely used and understood, but
    > l'hexagone is not all of France. Although Le Pen might fervently hope
    > that it were.

Aha, Le Pen is an anti-imperialist. No wonder that he's such a target
for hatred.

Meurgues

The Reids <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. ..
    > Following up to Carlus
    >
    > >you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"
    >
    > neither does anybody else. Nicknames are reserved for people of a
    > country "frogs", "roast beefs", "yanks" etc.

What's funny for the french is that for them the frog is the
traditional symbol for... rain !
for ex. in the expression "il pleut des grenouilles".

Hexagone is very common. The shape of the country easily looks like an
hexagone. I don't know if another country's general shape is as
geometric.
It is true that Marianne is originally the symbol of the french
republic but as Mxsmanics said it progressively represented France as
well, for ex. in the use for that purpose of a cartoonist in Le Figaro
newspaper during decades.
I don't know the origin of the rooster. It's a special and very
colourfull rooster with blue tail, red, orange and yellow breast and
wings which do really exists. The french believe it to have been found
in France or brought or perhaps created by the gauls, the ancesters of
the french, as a domestic animal, more than 2000 years ago. It was
perhaps endemic to France like very few other animals (the Desman for
ex.). It became probably a republican symbol in the 19th century
because it cries and awakes everyone in the morning. But I don't know
really.

didier Meurgues

The Rev Gaston

On 2005-02-03 16:17:50 +0100, nitram <[email protected]> said:

    > Didn't I see you on Tutti Frutti once?

Shuddupyaface!

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Donna Evleth

    > From: [email protected] (meurgues)
    > Organization: http://groups.google.com
    > Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe
    > Date: 11 Feb 2005 12:45:34 -0800
    > Subject: Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
    >
    > Hexagone is very common. The shape of the country easily looks like an
    > hexagone. I don't know if another country's general shape is as
    > geometric.

I don't know that either, but Italy is often referred to as "the Boot"
because of its shape.

Donna Evleth

Wolfgang Schwanke

Donna Evleth <[email protected]> wrote
in news:BE34F713.9B3%[email protected]:

    > I don't know that either, but Italy is often referred to as "the Boot"
    > because of its shape.


Scandinavia is obviously a "jumping lion". And Britain has always
reminded me of ... http://www.firstartsource.com/Art/PFD1117.jpg


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