Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now I no longer wonder why the English no longer have an American Colony? Regards, Greg Gerry Walden wrote: > > One of the wonderful but slightly frustrating things about the internet is > that people are fairly anonymous in that you have no idea who they really > are or even where they are from. And then, as an Englishman living in the > south of this small island, I read your wonderful description of the Black > Hawk Hotel and had visions of so many that I know with oak beamed ceilings > and wood panelling dating back to the times of Henry VIII. The smell of the > log fire and the pipe smoke mingling whilst I supped a pint of my favourite > brew were all in there, until I was brought down to earth with the name of > the night porter - Dewayne!!! > > You impostor, you misleader of men, this is not a genuine Black Hawk Hotel > but an American pseudo-hostelry that has never seen a postilian in its > entire life! No English hotel would countenance employing a night porter > with such a name! Scrote, the wrinkled retainer, is more our mark. > > Gerry