Better a golf course than a factory! :o)



>>>>>>>>>ICE just isn't working:
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>>>>>>>>>http://www.kjct8.com/global/story.asp?s=6772183
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>>>>>>>>You are so right, Tracy. If not for illegal immigrants there would be no crime in this country. Let's put up a wall!
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>>>>>>>>OK, I'll drop the sarcasm. But all this talk about building a wall really does have me scratching my head. Think about the precedents for building walls along a border. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. (Are there others you can think of?)
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>>>>>>>Well Hadrian built a wall to keep the Jocks out but look now - we've got one as a prime minister - they don't work.
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>>>>>>Arn't soccer players jocks too? they are here... :)
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>>>>>I know sportsmen are called "jocks" over there but here a "Jock" is a Scotsman :-)
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>>>>Does that mean all Scotsmans (Scotsmen?) are athletes?
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>>>Scotsmen. No, it refers to the fact that a very common Scottish forename is Jock.
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>>The birth place of golf is Scotland some where in the 14th century... as you may already know.
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>>Alex Smith, a Scot, won the US Open in 1899, 1906 and 1910. I wish I could time travel back to wittness it.
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>Again, Hadrian's Wall didn't manage to stop THAT dark practice from crossing the border - and ruining vast stretches of English countryside.