Dan...Not wishing to highjack your post...but rather to enhance it with the following:
> >Only in Britain... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way
> >to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy
> people
> >can buy cigarettes at the front.
> >
> >Only in Britain... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries,
> >and
> >a DIET coke.
> >
> >Only in Britain... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens
> to
> >
> >the counters.
> >
> >Only in Britain... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the
> >drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
> >
> >Only in Britain... do we use answering machines to screen calls and
> >then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't
> >want
> >to talk to in the first place.
> >
> >Only in Britain... are there disabled parking places in front of a
> >skating
> >rink.
> >
> >NOT TO MENTION...
> >
> >3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
> >142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new
> shirts.
> >
> >58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
> >screwdrivers.
> >31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while
> >the fairy lights were plugged in.
> >19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas
> >decorations were chocolate.
> >British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker
> pulling
> >
> >accidents.
> >101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled
> out
> >of the soles of their feet.
> >18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit
> >cigarette in their mouth.
> >A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after
> >opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
> >5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of Control
> >Scalextric cars.
> >and finally.........
> >In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the
> >toilet.
> >
> >I am proud to be British
> >
> >RULE BRITANNIA> >
(Sorry I copied and pasted from an email sent to me the other day. I could not be a*sed deleting all those bl**dy arrows!)
