Date: 24 Feb 2003 20:17:25 GMT From: davehinznopsamcop.net Subject: Re: Saab 9-5, Volvo V60, or Audi A6
Someone who looks an awful lot like MeatballTurbo <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> wrote: > In article <b3896l$1jfnl7$6nopsam34476.news.dfncis.de>, > davehinznopsamcop.net says... >> I'd like to go on record as considering myself as being a Scandinavian >> myself...I'm only a couple of generations removed, after all. But yes, >> Wisconsin winters are pretty snowy/slushy/icy (this one excepted, >> it seems), and it performs admirably. > As should a lot of Northern England and Most of Scotland and some of > Ireland, and then you ahve to add the watering down effect of Romans, > Saxons, and Normans Ah, but the Normans were vikings 2 or 3 generations removed, so I'd submit that it's the opposite of "watering down". It would have been interesting if, in 1066, the Vikings from the north and the Vikings from the south had had their dates better coordinated. (Stamford Bridge / Hastings). Dave Hinz