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Eurocrats leave Wales off EU map
BBC Wales ^ | 5 October 2004

Posted on 01/27/2005 9:54:05 PM PST by Glyndwr4Cymru

A bureaucratic blunder has left Wales off a map of Europe on the cover of a prestigious EU reference book. The Eurostat Statistical Compendium has all the facts and figures on Europe.

All EU member states, and the rest of Britain, are accurately represented on the cover - but Wales has disappeared and been replaced by the Irish Sea.

Tory leader Michael Howard said: "I was born and grew up in south Wales ... I know I've had my differences with Brussels, but I really do think that is going too far."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brussels; eurocrat; oops
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To: Torie

Say that fast 3 times.


21 posted on 01/27/2005 10:29:30 PM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

I visited Cardiff and Caefilly (I'm sure I'm misspelling that last city). Very beautiful, great people. I ate at a cool old pub on top of a mountain between the two cities, and walked through one of the old castles there. I'd love to visit again.


22 posted on 01/27/2005 10:31:31 PM PST by Theo
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To: blackbart.223
It was a swear word I inadvertently clipped. It means that you are a protectionist swinish isolationist appeasing paleocon.
23 posted on 01/27/2005 10:31:44 PM PST by Torie
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

I thought leftists loved whales?


24 posted on 01/27/2005 10:31:56 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: Torie
"It was a swear word I inadvertently clipped. It means that you are a protectionist swinish isolationist appeasing paleocon."

Thanks. I feel much better now.

25 posted on 01/27/2005 10:34:29 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: blackbart.223
Let me help you with this "word."
26 posted on 01/27/2005 10:43:14 PM PST by Torie
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Really, You are better off if they don't know where You are.


27 posted on 01/27/2005 11:00:49 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Arrrgh, what sort of fresh hell is this? To leave Wales off the map is to leave the jewel of the Isle off the Crown - it is to make the crown merely a fool's cap.

Arise, daughters of the Celts!


28 posted on 01/27/2005 11:55:25 PM PST by dandelion (http://thequestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Will the EU require equal representation for vowels?


29 posted on 01/28/2005 1:01:47 AM PST by Ken H
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To: Torie

That was cool. How did you do that?


30 posted on 01/28/2005 6:08:30 AM PST by Mercat (Forgiveness is part of Your plan.)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

King Henry V
Act 4. Scene VII

(snip)
KING HENRY V
Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your
majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack
Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY V
They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN
Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a
garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this
hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do
believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
upon Saint Tavy's day.

KING HENRY V
I wear it for a memorable honour;
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's
Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
his grace, and his majesty too!

KING HENRY V
Thanks, good my countryman.

FLUELLEN
By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not
who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I
need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be
God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
(snip)


31 posted on 01/28/2005 9:07:43 AM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Dude, man, Wales needs spelling lessons.

Seriously.


32 posted on 01/28/2005 9:09:40 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude

Actually, this is all a cunning plan to get try and get a Welsh flag for my profile page. Not only did the EU miss us out on their book cover, Wales has never been represented on the Union Flag that I’m currently, reluctantly, displaying. England, Scotland and Ulster yes, but Wales, no.


33 posted on 01/28/2005 5:16:18 PM PST by Glyndwr4Cymru
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To: Clemenza
Any country that has given us Catherine Zeta Jones can't be all that bad.

And "The Alarm" as well.

34 posted on 01/28/2005 5:17:26 PM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

The case for a Welsh flag on FR, (paraphrased from the Idaho Welsh Society - any factual errors, I blame my sources):
Twenty percent of the Pilgrim Fathers were Welsh, as was the Captain of the Mayflower.
Thomas Jefferson’s family came from Wales.
Seventeen of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh descent.
As was the man who financed the War of Independence, Robert Morris.
The English still see us as trouble makers (heheh).
(That whole War of Independence is suddenly making a lot more sense to me. Way to go, boyos!)


35 posted on 01/28/2005 5:18:07 PM PST by Glyndwr4Cymru
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Also (and I’ve only just discovered this) there is an inscription halfway up the steps of the Washington Monument, courtesy of Jefferson (who spoke the language fluently, apparently), which reads "FY IAITH, FY NGWLAD, FY NGHENEDL CYMRU - CYMRU AM BYTH!" ("My language, my land, my nation of Wales - Wales for ever!").

Now if all this doesn't warrant a Welsh Dragon for my profile page I don't know what does. What if I throw in John Marshall, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jefferson Davies, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Village from “The Prisoner,” Terry Jones from "Monty Python," the original Arthurian legends, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, and offer to take Hillary Clinton and The Osmonds back?


36 posted on 01/28/2005 5:18:39 PM PST by Glyndwr4Cymru
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

On the bright side... If they don't see you they can't tax you.


37 posted on 01/28/2005 5:20:05 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum)
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To: Glyndwr4Cymru

Cymru, agos at ei galon!
Wales, close to one's heart!

38 posted on 01/31/2005 5:30:48 AM PST by bd476 (God Bless those in harm's way and bring peace to those who have lost loved ones today.)
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