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Old May 29th 10, 12:54 PM posted to misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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On Sat, 29 May 2010 12:31:41 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Willms wrote:

Am Thu, 27 May 2010 18:55:59 UTC, schrieb allantracy
auf uk.railway :

I don't know why we bother with Europe, the whole thing is flawed, we
would be much better off with the dollar and become the 51st state and
we could go back to Imperial measurements far better than all this
foreign muck that no one wants.


Just as George Orwell layed out the basis of his "1984".


We were an airstrip in that, not a state.



Sounds a bit like our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.