"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:01:52 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
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>> > On 5/27/2014 11:32 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> >>> On 5/27/2014 11:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> >>>> Nice flag) Tell me about it?
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>> >>> The King of Hawaii at the time the flag was designed, was friendly
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>> >>> with Great Britain. It's the only American state flag to have the
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>> >>> Union Jack incorporated into it. Just think about it - we could have
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>> >>> been British subjects. That would probably have been fine with us.
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>> >> With us too)))))
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>> > Better the Brits than the Spaniards or France, is what I always say.
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>> But of course me old cock sparrer ))) You are always welcome to be one
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>> us if that is what you want)))
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> I have no idea what a cock sparrer is but I like how you Brits have idioms
> that reak of Old Britannia and the days when Britian ruled the waves and
> Dicken's England. Our slang mostly goes about as far back as the beginning
> of the space and internet age.

Just an affectionate London term

> I suspect that the security lady at the Manchester Airport might want to
> be one of us. I am of the belief that she kept my Hawaii driver's license.
> I saw her at the gate later on, accompanied by 2 officers wearing
> bullet-proof vests and carrying what looked to be AR-15s. So much for the
> notions that cops in the UK do not carry arms. It looked like something
> big was going down and that perhaps it was a bad time to bring up the
> matter of my drivers license. Well I sure hope she enjoys it.

That is normal at airports and they would have been MP3s not AR-15s Not
especially for you, or anything 'going down' )

All constabularies in the UK have armed support groups available and in some
cities they are permanently deployed on patrol. And then of course the
diplomatic protection group, which is a part of the metropolitan police in
London are always armed.


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