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One in 10 Britons welcome 'Luvania' to EU family
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| Thu Apr 29, 2004
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Posted on 04/29/2004 2:25:55 PM PDT by swilhelm73
LONDON (AFP) - Around one in 10 people in Britain are looking forward to Luvania joining the European Union (news - web sites) this weekend. That's right, Luvania.
Telcoms provider One.Tel invited participants in an marketing survey to identify the 10 EU accession nations -- and cheekily added fictional Luvania to the list as a red herring.
Eight percent of all 2,500 respondents plumped for the mythical country -- a proportion that went up to nine percent among Scots, and 11 percent among over-50s.
"People aren't generally aware," One.Tel spokesman Carol Barnes said Thursday. "They're more involved in their day-to-day lives rather than the bigger picture of what is going on in the EU."
The online survey, conducted by One.Tel to gauge potential international calling trends after EU enlargement, also revealed that 15 percent think Austria is among the EU newcomers. It actually joined in 1995.
Ignorance about the EU is a problem in Britain, with its people always the most likely to reply "don't know" in regular Eurobarometer polls conducted for the European Commission (news - web sites).
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: eu; luvania
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To: swilhelm73
Around one in 10 people in Britain are looking forward to Luvania
Eight percent of all 2,500 respondents plumped for the mythical country
How about one in 12?
Would you one in 12.5?
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:35:52 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Sane, and have the papers to prove it!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Would you beleive 12.5?
Would you beleive, the spell check ate it?
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:40:43 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Sane, and have the papers to prove it!)
To: swilhelm73
The British might not be so geographically savvy but at math their high school students consistently outscore Luvanian students by 20 percentage points.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:43:17 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
Luvania...aren't they sending troops to help in Iraq ?
To: swilhelm73
Is Luvania near Shangri La or Avalon?
To: swilhelm73
Eight percent of all 2,500 respondents plumped for the mythical country -- a proportion that went up to nine percent among Scots, and 11 percent among over-50s.
More ammo for my Scottish Soothsayer! I imagine her as quite talented in the ways of far-seeing, but not able to get a brush through her hair or milk in the teacup.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:54:07 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: swilhelm73
a cheeky attempt to bash Scots! To arms!
To: swilhelm73
You didn't hear it from me, but those foreign leaders supporting John Kerry? You guessed it -- Luvanian.
To: swilhelm73
So when is Freedonia joining the EU?
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:02:13 PM PDT
by
Starter
To: Starter
"So when is Freedonia joining the EU?"
When Helldonia freezes over.
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:48:48 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(The EU constitution: The tangled mess made official)
To: swilhelm73
The British must have ruled Luvania at some stage.
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posted on
04/29/2004 3:50:52 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(The EU constitution: The tangled mess made official)
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