Re: OT: Re: My suggestions for this Group

squaredancer wrote:
> On 03/12/2006 17:58, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Ed Mullen to 
> generate the following:? :
>> Bill wrote:
>>  
>>> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>>    
>>>> squaredancer wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>      
>>>>> sorry - didn't realise that the Irish had their *very own* ocean 
>>>>>   I was thinking they would have a Channel, such as the English 
>>>>> do to keep the french at bay!
>>>>> Anyway - I mean "that stretch of water" to the LEFT of 
>>>>> Wales-England and to the RIGHT of Ireland, from the North Channel 
>>>>> at the top to the St. George's Channel at the bottom.
>>>>>         
>>> Now I'm confused? Are there Yankees over here in Ireland? LOL
>>>
>>>    
>>>>> No offence taken, for your correction of my geography, Bill! :-P
>>>>>         
>>> None intended Reg.
>>>    
>>>>> reg
>>>>>         
>>>> Isn't that the Irish /Sea/ ? I wonder how it's called in Gaelic. 
>>>> Names change with language: Strait of Dover = Pas de Calais, English 
>>>> Channel = la Manche (wfw. the Sleeve, is that it?), Bay of Biscay = 
>>>> Golfe de Gascogne, etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Tony.
>>>>       
>>> Muir Éireann (Irish Sea) Probably called Irish Sea because the 
>>> English didn't want it.
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>>     
>>
>> Ah, yes.  And then there's Connemara.  http://edmullen.net/ireland01.html
>>
>> :-D
>>
>>   
> that's a TROLL, Ed!  you can tell by the cap and the handbag! :-P
> 
> reg

ROFLMAO!  Err, actually, that is my cousin's handbag sitting on Conn's 
pedestal.  I'll have to tell her about this.  :-D

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