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> "SPierce" bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>> This is all really childish banter. The Scots invented most of the
>> things you take for granted, whether they had gone to America or New
>> Zealand. Look up Scottish inventions and see for yourself.

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> Alcoholism, Childhood obesity, Unemployability, a version of English no
> one can understand, the road south, the Olympic sports of pulling down
> telephone poles tand throwing them away, The art of urinating in phone
> boxes, The most famous book in Scotish history " 500 ways to borrow money"
> Oh and the Pneumatic tyre because they were to damn lazy to repair the
> roads the English laid for them :o)
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