Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:58:14 GMT, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>David Friedman wrote:
>> In article <6mpgq3t94jv17k1nctqdd5ff54egu5349e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,

>> And I doubt that the reality of either Churchill or Biggles is a 
>> controversial subject in the U.K.
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>I'd be surprised if many kids have even heard of Biggles.  Churchill 
>is, of course, that stupid talking dog that sells insurance ;-)

As of 1972, anyway,  apparently enough still had that Ian Anderson
felt confident in listing him in the same breath as Superman and
Robin:

Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books 
your super-crooks and 
show us all the way. 
Well! Make your will and testament. 
Won't you? Join your local government. 
We'll have Superman for president 
let Robin save the day. 
So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday? 
And where were all the s****tsmen who always pulled you through? 
They're all resting down in Cornwall - writing up their memoirs 
for a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual.