On Friday 26 April 2002 09:59, Smith, Bradley wrote:
> > From: Pedro Hobbyfrazoo [mailto:pjfraser_at_mac.com]
> >
> > aw, hell. i just thought it was because you aren't Scottish.
> >
> > growing up, if we were caught killing a spider, our Glaswegian dad
> > would've given us the belt...why?
> >
> > Back in the 1300s Robert the Bruce fought and lost six
> > battles against
> > the British. Defeated, discouraged at heart, and hiding from his
>
> <snip>
>
> He fought the English, not the British. The English, Welsh and Scots are
> all British. England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man are all
> separate contries, but part of the collective grouping known as Great
> Britain.
>
He was a Scotsman; he'd have fought pretty much anything. (*)
(*) Especially people telling him he was fighting the English, not the
British. :^D
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