Posted by The Older Gentleman on February 25, 2010, 5:22 pm
> This isn't American history, it's British history -- you know,
> Royal Navy -- grog - tot of rum - Queen Vickie and all that.
S'Pose so...
>
> The Widow at Windsor
> By Rudyard Kipling
<snip>
Are you trying to copy Krusty in pasting reams and reams of irrelevance?
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Posted by Sean_Q_ on February 26, 2010, 5:11 pm
The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Are you trying to copy Krusty in pasting reams and reams of irrelevance?
No, just reams and reams of relevance. Actually I was in a hurry
to rush off and build shelving (we're moving soon) and didn't
have time to edit and leave only my favorite parts, such as
"the bloomin' old rag over'ead".
SQ
Posted by Sean_Q_ on February 26, 2010, 12:50 pm
The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Interesting. Thanks. Actually, we weren't taught much American history,
Maybe they just glossed over all the parts where the English
were defeated, such as Bannockburn, Ticonderoga, Yorktown,
Khartoum, Isandlwana, Majuba Hill, Sandfontein, Dunkirk,
Singapore, etc...
SQ
Posted by Twibil on February 25, 2010, 5:39 pm
> What were you doing in history class, TOG, sleeping?
> Captain Vancouver's family was from Coevorden, Netherlands
> so they were called "van Coevorden", later anglicized
> to "Vancouver", get the picture? In 1791 he was
> tasked by the Royal Navy to chart the Northwest Pacific
> coast after a treaty with Spain. (He was technically
> a surveyor, not an explorer.)
> Vancouver, Washington is a town in the US,
> on the Columbia River (across from Portland, Oregon)
> which is ironic because he never discovered the mouth
> of the Columbia.
Er, how is that "ironic"?
So far as I know, Queen Victoria never discovered Victoria Park in
East London, nor did Ronald Reagan ever discover Reagan National
Airport in Washington D.C. (Come to think of it, G. Washington didn't
discover Washington D.C., either.)
Has the old-as-the-hills tradition of honoring people by naming places
after them somehow escaped your notice until now?
Posted by Sean_Q_ on February 26, 2010, 12:58 am
Twibil wrote:
>> Vancouver, Washington is a town in the US,
>> on the Columbia River (across from Portland, Oregon)
>> which is ironic because he never discovered the mouth
>> of the Columbia.7
>
> Er, how is that "ironic"?
> Has the old-as-the-hills tradition of honoring people by naming places
> after them somehow escaped your notice until now?
Man, ya sure gotta watch what ya say on this forum or you get
challenged every inch of the way (with a dollop of sarcasm).
Your point is valid. Ok, so it's not ironic.
SQ [folding tent and retreating into the desert by starlight
on motorcycle and sidecar]
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> Royal Navy -- grog - tot of rum - Queen Vickie and all that.