* On Sep 19 19:57 Bob Lawrence wrote to Dieter Mirbach

 BL>> Following in the steps of Hume and Hovell...
 DM>> Who ???
 BL>   Bloody ingorant at Kiwis!

 BL>   Hume and Hovell were two of the early Australian explorers who
 BL> discovered Canberra. Hume then shot Hovell and ran screaming all 
 BL> the way to Melbourne and never came back. They named the Hume 
 BL> Highway after Hovell, but the Hovell Highway sounded bloody 
 BL> silly, as if it had shacks all the way along it, so they 
 BL> named it the Three-bedroom Cottage Highway instead.

 BL>   Australian history is full of interesting stories like this.
 BL> Tomorrow I'll tell you the true story of Eyre's Cock, and how the 
 BL> Great Randy Desert got its name.

Keep up the medication Bob :-)

David
 

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