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To: nickcarraway
Ruuuule brittania, rule brittania! (makes the two fingered "pluck yew" longbowman taunt)
2 posted on
02/19/2002 9:23:09 AM PST by
tomakaze
To: nickcarraway
A mistake? Can you say a possible new world order operation? Hmmm
3 posted on
02/19/2002 9:24:08 AM PST by
poet
To: nickcarraway
Well, Helen Thomas was part right when she asked Bush if we were planning on invading Spain? Go ask our relatives across the pond, Helen!
To: nickcarraway
And the French, upon hearing of the invasion of Spain, promptly surrendered.
To: nickcarraway
The British military apologized Monday for invading Spain over the weekend -- by mistake. Plans are bieng drawn up for an Orderly transition of the Nations Capital back to the Spanish Government....
6 posted on
02/19/2002 9:27:18 AM PST by
hobbes1
To: nickcarraway
8 posted on
02/19/2002 9:31:33 AM PST by
anguish
To: nickcarraway
And Bush is supposed to check with London before taking action?????
10 posted on
02/19/2002 9:35:33 AM PST by
wny
To: nickcarraway
There is this fancy new device that works using the "GPS" - Global Positioning System.
The Brits could borrow it from me. It fits in my palm and can detect my coordinates within 10 feet.
To: nickcarraway
The only thing that could have made this funnier is if the Spanish citizens beat them back off the shore into the water!!!
Friggin' Brits... : )
To: nickcarraway
Odd... my $300 Garmin III+ GPS I bought at REI has a built in map, and pinpoints my position within about 12 feet. The map displays lakes, cities, streets, train tracks, and state and international boundries. I'll happily sell it to the Brit's for say ... gosh ... $3 Million. Think of how much international embarassment it would save.
13 posted on
02/19/2002 9:38:18 AM PST by
Hodar
To: nickcarraway
I know that a lot of pipple are laughing about this, saying "How can you miss the Rock Of Gibraltar?!?!?" But the reality is that, under many circumstances, it's darned easy to miss.
The Rock is not the huge looming sentry portrayed in films and in Prudential ads. If you have this image of The Rock "guarding" the entrance to the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, then you really ought to see the place, as we did last summer.
Gibraltar is a small, very rugged lump of prehistoric limestone which isn't even an island (although it HAS been) described as follows at www.gibraltar.gi:
"For now it remains as a narrow peninsula stuck to the end of the Iberian Peninsula, linked to it by a narrow isthmus. This isthmus, covered by buildings and a runway, is sandy. You can still see this sand on the surface in places, often littered in marine shells from a more recent past when the sea separated Gibraltar from the rest. This would have last happened during the latest warm period of the glaciations, probably around 120 thousand years ago. Many still refer to Gibraltar as an island. Historically, biologically, even politically it has been an island even in recent times, but physically it is a peninsula."
As for Gibraltar "guarding the Straits Of Gibraltar" connected the Med to the Atlantic, well, it just ain't so. The "rock" is well set off to one side of Algeciras, the Spanish port where you may embark on a ferry to Morocco. The strait itself is fairly wide, and unless the weather is really clear, it IS possible to sail the straits and never see the Rock at all - it's that far over on the Spanish side of things.
In fact, when Gibraltar first comes into view, your first and general reaction is, "That's IT?!?! That's what all the fuss is about?" In other words, it ain't that big, and if it's the least bit foggy, you can easily miss it until you're right on top of it. And, as that webpage says, adjacent to the Brits' property on that peninsulary isthmus are sandy beaches that are, ahem, part of Spain. The border there is not at all apparent from the sea.
I'll cut the Royal Marines a little slack on this one. Too easy a mistake to make. Sorry, Virginia, but the Rock Of Gibraltar doesn't look like the Prudential. It's pretty puny.
Michael
To: nickcarraway
Hmm...Spanish wine, and beautiful Spanish women, lonely soldiers, and an upcoming IO deployment? Sure it was a mistake...suuuure it was...
To: nickcarraway
WRONG WAY HARRIMAN(sp???) STRIKES AGAIN!!!! ROFLMAO:-)))
To: nickcarraway
Lo Siento! Lo Siento!
21 posted on
02/19/2002 10:00:31 AM PST by
Illbay
To: nickcarraway
Anyone here wanna imagine the reaction if the US had done this? The Europeans would be having a hissy fit.
23 posted on
02/19/2002 10:02:27 AM PST by
Godel
To: nickcarraway
Tut, tut. This all was just a Monty Python sketch.....
27 posted on
02/19/2002 10:17:46 AM PST by
tracer
To: nickcarraway
Don Quixote Rides Again
To: nickcarraway
Whoops! British Marines lose bearings, 'invade' Spain
France announces immediate surrender!
30 posted on
02/19/2002 10:53:38 AM PST by
bigdog
To: nickcarraway
The Mouse that Roared II.
40 posted on
02/19/2002 11:57:46 AM PST by
Consort
To: nickcarraway
"In related news, a spokesman for the French Government said he was dispatching the armed forces to Spain immediately for a surrender drill."
41 posted on
02/19/2002 12:01:27 PM PST by
Jhoffa_
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