SNOW ON THE PEA SOUP
And Other Anecdotes
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Titles of the first few anecdotes You’re eating the doily, Wal-Australia Snow on the pea soup- Oxford University The rural chicken-UK The cowled monk-UK I know some shortcuts-KLM pilot The only thing today that Germany is not best at-German Banker It’s fish on the menu as we’re..-Airline Stewardess There’s no such thing as British Airways-Airport Information line A pint of whisky-Cyprus Airlines Where is zis Londres (London) Gatwick anyway- Algerian Pilot about to fly there Missing Mount Cook-New Zealand Black coffee or white Sir?-British Railways Drones like me-Oxford Professor Princess Margaret’s car- British Leyland 1970’s English Afternoon tea as it is mis-served-Thailand I am sailor-France The Japanese concept of fresh and the western concept of dead do not meet in the middle-Tokyo Japanese Hotels-Japan Amerikya. Presidyent Clinton.Monika Levinsy-Kazahstan The real “Pretty Woman” hotel-Los Angeles
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This book represents 50 years of collecting anecdotes, starting at Oxford University at the end of its golden age of developing the personality as well as the brain. So different from nowadays where Britain’s left wing conservative government requires the world’s best known University to waste its money and time explaining to stupid schoolchildren who won’t apply because they think they will be murdered because the “Inspector Morse” murder mysteries are set In Oxford, that they are fiction- pupils this stupid don’t deserve any university education. It goes forward to 2013, with a big airport denying there is an airline called British Airways, and the potential sighting of the ghost of a cowled monk in an ancient churchyard. Geographically it includes the little visited countries of Kazakhstan (a real anecdote, not the silliness of Borat) and the tiny coral Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific.