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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Brian WhiteheadBrian Whitehead Date: Dec 20, 2007 04:59
On 20 Dec, 12:40, Adrian gmail.com> wrote:> Brian Whitehead (Brian Whitehead hotmail.com>) gurgled
> happily, sounding much like they were saying:
>>>>>> Back to the good old days, eh? Rickets, consumption, cholera,
>>>>> malnutrition, illiteracy, death in childbirth ...
>>>> But at least you couldn't get run over by a car.
>>> Actually that's untrue.
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>>> I suspect you meant "you couldn't get run over by a motor car."-
>> Yes. �So to Doug it must have been better - much nicer to die of the
>> consumption, or in a factory accident, don't you think?
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> or crushed under the hooves/wheels of a horse-drawn carriage.
I wonder if there were Victorian Dougs railing against the profusion
of horse-drawn carriages? I suspect not, they'd have carted him off
to the loony bin or the workhouse long ago.
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