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The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48178] Thu, 10 January 2008 17:44 Go to next message
timmy

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Pilgrim fathers vs telephone sanitisers, middlemen, advertising executives.



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Re: The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48179 is a reply to message #48178] Thu, 10 January 2008 19:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48182 is a reply to message #48179] Thu, 10 January 2008 21:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
acam is currently offline  acam

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Timmy, if you are alluding to Douglas Adams the important group after the telephone sanitisers was surely the hairdressers and the Grauniad (G2) had a long article about how the UK is now the world leader in hairdressing!

I suppose it could be worse!

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Re: The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48192 is a reply to message #48178] Fri, 11 January 2008 02:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Um, ok, I think I understand what B Ark means because we use that term over here in the Colonies too.

From what my understanding of the colonization process was, at least as it pertained to the American thirteen colonies, was that there certainly were some "gentlemen adventurers" in the Virginia colony at first, but then they got put to work, just to eat.

Most colonists were workerbees I think. Don't forget, America was a savage wilderness when the colonists arrived.

The British populated Australia with B Ark criminals, or so I've been told. They called it "transportation" as a criminal sentence.
Re: The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48200 is a reply to message #48192] Fri, 11 January 2008 07:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was seriously only thinking of the load of religious bigots in the Mayflower, you know Smile



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Re: The Mayflower was the B Ark of its day - discuss  [message #48211 is a reply to message #48200] Fri, 11 January 2008 13:31 Go to previous message
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O, ah ha! I gotcha! No, I don't think any of us would have done well in the Massachusetts Bay Colony either. Especially Jonster!
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