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| ccieToBe 2003-02-23, 10:40 pm |
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21. We invented ...penicillin...
Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in London. | |
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Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in London.
You are quite right, Fleming was a Scotsman living in London..
My daughter sent me this last night, I thought it was interesting,insightful, and funny. Didn,t feel I had to check everything out, but in hind sight I guess I should have | |
| bearing 2003-02-24, 4:07 am |
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6. Hockey is Canadian
Ice Hockey maybe, but Hockey is a sport invented in England..
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7. Basketball is Canadian
I thought it was invented by James Naismith at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass.
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13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere.
No the Country of England has more, there's no person living that has surrendered or withdrawn from a war.
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17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.
I think you'll find that both the British and the French have owned a lot more than that.
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20. We don't marry our kin-folk.
Yeah, pull the other one it's got bells on..
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21. We invented ,
velcro - A swiss inventor named George de Mestral.
penicillin - As ccieToBe said, and Flemming was Scottish.
the telephone - invented by a Scotsman | |
| peterd 2003-02-24, 6:59 am |
| Hi guys,
I thought that penicillin was 'discovered' by a student and Fleming grabbed the credit for it as he as the senior man/tutor (whatever)?
Regards
Peter | |
| thecomeons 2003-02-24, 1:08 pm |
| i remember on telly once, bob fleming discovered a badgers' set and made a complete bollocks of the filming of it coz of his terrible cough. | |
| MartyMcFly 2003-02-24, 1:59 pm |
| I guess reading the thread a little bit late, it makes even less sense than normal. | |
| bearing 2003-02-25, 3:57 am |
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i remember on telly once, bob fleming discovered a badgers' set and made a complete bollocks of the filming of it coz of his terrible cough.
We got to see the badger albeit briefly though..
God knows how he ever got hired in the first place, mind you his co presenters were no better.. | |
| thecomeons 2003-02-25, 4:29 am |
| like that bloke who always carried a friggin sheep. | |
| MistyRing 2003-02-25, 6:40 am |
| was he canadian?? | |
| thecomeons 2003-02-25, 7:17 am |
| nah. probably came from zummerzet or somewhere loik tha'  | |
| bearing 2003-02-25, 8:23 am |
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nah. probably came from zummerzet or somewhere loik tha'
Or maybe he was a Staffordian. | |
| Forsaken 2003-02-25, 10:31 am |
| Canadians gave us William Shatner which correlates with Star Trek and Tech Wars |
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