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To: ffusco
I like claptrap! Gumflappin' claptrap!

What was the Airstrip reference?

78 posted on 05/31/2003 3:35:56 AM PDT by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
From 1984. The name used for England. Just as you proposed there wasThe Angloshere (Oceania?) Britain was named Airstrip One presumably due to US forward bases there. Cynical but true.


Cheers.

80 posted on 05/31/2003 3:42:03 AM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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