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

 
It's very sad that a country's entire inventions catalogue can be fitted
ontoone page! 

P.S. the steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen, an Englishman from
Dartmouth. 

Regards to all 

Ian


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Date:  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:19:37 +0100
>   .
>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".
>  ALSO HAVE A WEE LOOK  HERE
>http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html
>KENNY
>SKYE
>
>
>
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