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Not Tower of London, instead Eiffel, French panic, nicht wahr?
bc
Brian Whatcott wrote:
>I feel an anecdote coming on...
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>I bumped into an ethics teacher newly returned from a tip
>to London and Paris, on Saturday.
>I asked how she came by the dark bruised rings round
>each eye.
> She told me that while looking round the Tower, there was a
>bomb alert (one of several she experienced, sadly).
>People were asked to leave the building, and she did.
>But on the cobbles outside, when jostled by another escapee,
>she tripped and fell on her glasses, which though unbroken,
>inflicted the bruises.
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>Brian W
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>At 11:22 AM 5/24/2004, you wrote:
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>>Some where in my collection of videos is my recording of one demo'd at
>>an NCNAAPT meeting -- evidently there are many out there.
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>>The first one I saw was a very small (no load- I think model airplane
>>using its prop.) one in '66 * built by the chief mechanician at Keele,
>>Physics (UK). He's the one who responded to my noting that the
>>building's doors didn't have panic bars w/, "Being British, we don't
panic."
>>
>>* About the time of the Channel hovercraft.
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>>bc
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>Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
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