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To: PiersGaveston
This wasn't in the link you provided.

Yes it was. It was in the 18th and 19th paragraphs of 85.

Are you a product of the great British schooling where school children don't know what a carrot is?

POINTY THING CONFUSES KIDS

Pupils on a visit to a farm confessed to staff they had never seen or eaten a carrot before.

Despite it being one of the most common vegetables in Britain, the children seemed bemused by the strange, orange object.

Other pupils asked staff at the food festival if they could be eaten raw.

Sally Jackson, joint owner of Lincolnshire Organics Farm Shop said it was mainly six and seven-year-olds who said they had never tasted a carrot.

She told the Daily Express: "And some asked, 'Can you eat it like that, don't you need to cook it first?'.

"It's one of the first foods a child eats."

She added: "We were handing out mini-carrots and quite a few children said they had never tried a carrot and some they had never eaten them raw.

"Some schools are brilliant because they are teaching children about food but there's a big gap that needs filling."

Or have heard of Auschwitz?

NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS NEVER HEARD OF AUSCHWITZ

LONDON (AFP) - Nearly half of Britons have never heard of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland, according to a BBC television poll that was conducted just ahead of the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation.

113 posted on 12/16/2004 12:15:31 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls
Are you a product of the great British schooling where school children don't know what a carrot is?

Goodness no. I live in Buckinghamshire which is Tory controlled and has been since goodness knows when. We have decent education in this part of the country.

Or have heard of Auschwitz?

Indeed I have. Pity you guys turned up late for W.W.II or we'd have been in there kicking out the Nazis much quicker. But hey ho, let's not dwell on what might have been.
120 posted on 12/16/2004 12:48:59 PM PST by PiersGaveston (Poker anyone?)
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To: FreedomCalls

Goodness gracious, give it a rest. You've made your point.

Is it really patriotic to piss all over anyone with the slightest tangentially different view? The guy ain't advocating communism or Hillary...


122 posted on 12/16/2004 2:05:27 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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