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Posted by Malcolm Hoar on December 20, 2006, 2:09 pm
ricardiandentures@btinternet.com wrote:
>Goedjn wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:53:33 +0000, Bruce
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>>> Keith Willcocks wrote:
>>>> A few years ago we took a train trip across Canada and fell in with a group
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>>>> of Americans. By the end of the trip I had them calling the railroad: the
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>>>> railway, switches: points and ties: sleepers. Oh and the engineer was the
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>>>> engine driver.
>>> And Americans drive on the parkway whereas we park on the driveway.
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>> Except on the Garden State Parkway, where you're actually
>> parked, just wishing you were driving.
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>Sounds very much like the M25 around London - often referred to as
>largest car park in the UK
It wasn't always so. Back in about '86 you could do 125mph on
the stretch between the M3 and the M4. And I have a ticket
and 6-week disqualification to prove it :-(
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