[modeleng] Re: it's a bit quiet here...

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Wha's Like Us - Damn Few And They're A' Deid

The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his 
national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles Macintosh 
from Glasgow, Scotland. En route to his office he strides along the English 
lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of 
Dreghorn, Scotland, arrives at the station and boards a train, the 
forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of Greenock, 
Scotland. He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the 
latter invented by Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth.

At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by James 
Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born 
in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by 
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland.

He watches the news on his television, an invention of John Logie Baird of 
Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by 
John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks 
up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a 
Scot, King James VI, who authorised its translation.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world.

He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was 
invented by Captain Patrick of Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table 
injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of 
Darvel, Scotland, and given an anaesthetic, which was discovered by Sir 
James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning he was as safe 
as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid 
Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask "Wha's Like Us".
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