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To: ansel12

Looks like they’re a buncha bowlegged farmers who are more used to ridin’ than marchin’! ;-)


16,427 posted on 04/30/2007 2:16:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: EternalVigilance

“””Looks like they’re a buncha bowlegged farmers who are more used to ridin’ than marchin’! ;-)”””

Very astute observation. Since they were Englishmen they possibly suffered from the medical disorder “rickets”, resulting from a vitamin D deficiency and evidenced by soft bones.

Also another term ‘limeys’ is derived from sucking on limes to increase vitamin C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets


16,515 posted on 04/30/2007 3:08:54 PM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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