Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

On Tue, 06 May 2008 06:55:50 +0100 (BST), dbell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
("David G. Bell") wrote:


>  daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "David V. Loewe, Jr" wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:18:01 -0700 (PDT), cryptoguy
>> <treifamily@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >On May 3, 3:13 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> Paul Dormer <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>> >> > The BBC do occasionally buy in quality shows from Europe.
>> >>
>> >> In the UK, the UK isn't considered part of Europe?
>> >
>> >Depends who you ask, but not always. There's a famous
>> >headline from the early 20th century, reading "Fog
>> >blankets Channel: Continent cut off.'
>> >
>> >If you're standing on Britain, it's easy to think of all
>> >the countries the other side of the channel as a
>> >separate collective - 'the Continent', or just 'Europe'.
>> >
>> >From 3000 more miles away, that distinction looks
>> >silly.
>> 
>> Especially considering I have fairly recently seen people opine that
>> Iceland is a part of Europe.
>
>About half of it is.

Of course, that is a different sense than what is being discussed.
You're talking geologically and what is being discussed is politically
and socially.

In any case, I'll put you down as being for the statement that "The UK
is part of Europe."
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