"Chess One" wrote in message
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"Tim Hanke" wrote:
"Phil Innes" wrote ...
Also the last Cornish speaker did not 'die in 1978'. ...
She was in fact survived by her parrot who continued speaking
the language for several years

Phil, I didn't know you were a parrot.

Here is another example of ad-parrotem from a high USCF official.

Did you know that Einstein had a parrot? It was towards the end of his
life and he rescued it from a neighbour who died, or some similarly serious
condition. The trouble was the parrot was depressed, so Einstein sang to it,
apparently for considerable periods of time every day. It is unknown if he
sang in German or English.

Rumour has it that Albert Einstein would attempt to amuse the parrot by
recounting anecdotes about physicists. Here's a possible example:

Edwin Schroedinger decided to give Werner Heisenberg a ride in his car.
When Schroedinger backed up the car, he heard a terrifying shriek, so he
stopped the car and discovered that he had run over his cat.

Schroedinger: Is the cat dead?
Heisenberg : On principle, I cannot be certain.

Then Caissandra smiled like the Chesshire Cat! :-)

--Nick

"The Green ******* from Parts Unknown" wrote in
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David Richerby wrote:

[1] Does NI tend to team up with the
Republic for things like soccer and rugby

NI has its own soccer team. George Best and Pat Jennings played for them
(probably not at the same time).

I believe there is only one sport at which Ireland fields a united team, and
I think it is Rugby.

Ah, but many chessplayers from Quebec play
under their provincial flag rather than the more
familiar maple leaf. Is the Quebec flag as
familiar to readers of this group as England's is?

Where the hell is Quebec? ;-)

For the record, I don't know the Quebecois flag, and I am the sort of person
who knows the Estonian Flag, the Cornish Flag and even the Sami (Lapp) flag.

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"Nick" wrote in message
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"Chess One" wrote in message
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"Tim Hanke" wrote:
"Phil Innes" wrote ...
Also the last Cornish speaker did not 'die in 1978'. ...
She was in fact survived by her parrot who continued speaking
the language for several years

Phil, I didn't know you were a parrot.

Here is another example of ad-parrotem from a high USCF official.

Did you know that Einstein had a parrot? It was towards the end of his
life and he rescued it from a neighbour who died, or some similarly
serious
condition. The trouble was the parrot was depressed, so Einstein sang
to it,
apparently for considerable periods of time every day. It is unknown if
he
sang in German or English.

Rumour has it that Albert Einstein would attempt to amuse the parrot by
recounting anecdotes about physicists. Here's a possible example:

Edwin Schroedinger decided to give Werner Heisenberg a ride in his car.
When Schroedinger backed up the car, he heard a terrifying shriek, so he
stopped the car and discovered that he had run over his cat.

Schroedinger: Is the cat dead?
Heisenberg : On principle, I cannot be certain.

Then Caissandra smiled like the Chesshire Cat! :-)

No wonder the parrot was depressed. And unlike Alekhine's parrot couldn't
play chess. Phil

--Nick

Peter Rice wrote in
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One oddity (among many) is that the British Chess Federation
http://www.bcf.org.uk/ only controls chess in England but runs the
British Championship.

The British Championship has been won by some players from outside England,
outside Great Britain, and, indeed, outside the United Kingdom.

We also have a Welsh Chess Union and Chess Scotland, both separate
members of FIDE. ...

In international chess events, the British Isles are represented by
FIDE members for England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Guernsey, and Jersey.

Which FIDE member is represented by Mohammed Khan and Paul Wojciechowski?
Jersey. :-)

If Mohammed Khan and Paul Wojciechowski were permitted to play in a FIDE
tournament in New York City, who could be more likely to draw the attention
of the United States's Department of Homeland Security by saying:
"I'm (his name) from Jersey"?

'La Reyne le veult; soit fait comme il est desire.'

--Nick

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
David Richerby writes:
John Rowland wrote:
I don't think we should make fun of Americans for not knowing the flags
of the different parts of the UK. After all, how many of us Brits would
recognise the flag of California?

You're right, of course, but the comparison isn't quite fair because the
individual states of the US don't enter international sporting
competitions as separete entities, whereas England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland[1] do.

Well then, perhaps we should fix *that*?

Who are 'we'? :-)

'La Reyne le veult; soit fait comme il est desire.'

--Nick

Where the hell is Quebec? ;-)

Its a mythical country to the north of Maine in the United States, no one
has ever been there. The capital of the place is called Quebec City, of
course - it is not a very imaginative myth.

Somewhere at great distance to the West is another city, say as far as
Munster is from Münster, called Trono. I have met people who claim to have
been there, and say the natives all wear 'turtlenecks', but they always
smirk when telling the story. In films they always show the "Canadian Flag"
as some sort of road-kill Rorschach shape on a field of snow.

Phil

For the record, I don't know the Quebecois flag, and I am the sort of
person
who knows the Estonian Flag, the Cornish Flag and even the Sami (Lapp)
flag.

"John Rowland" wrote:
"Eamon Warnock" wrote to "Ivan":
(snipped)
Are you from USA and do you know the difference between
England and Britain?
(That's called a yes-and-no question.) :-D

Knowing that there's a distinction between England and Great Britain
seems rather like knowing there was a distinction between Russia and
the Soviet Union.

I don't think we should make fun of Americans for not knowing the flags
of the different parts of the UK.

I don't think that anyone has been 'mak(ing) fun of Americans'--at
least not in a malicious way--'for not knowing the *flags* (plural
noted) of the different parts of the UK'. It seems to me that, at
most, some of us may have been amused that many Americans would not
recognise that England's flag is not the Union Jack, which seems more
familiar to them (I care little about flags), and that many Americans
tend to assume that England does stand for the entirety of the United
Kingdom (which seems to be a more significant misunderstanding).

On the other hand, there have been many posts written here by 'flag-waving'
Americans that impose ignorant, inaccurate, and often demeaning stereotypes
(such as that all Frenchmen are cowards) on other groups of people. And
the Americans who write those stereotypes tend to respond to any criticism
by immediately denouncing and dismissing it as 'anti-American', if not also
by personally attacking any perceived critic.

After all, how many of us Brits would recognise the flag of California?

If Arnold Schwarzenegger can do it, then how hard could it be? :-)

--Nick

Well then, perhaps we should fix *that*?

Who are 'we'? :-)

Nous sommes tous dans la même galère?

'La Reyne le veult; soit fait comme il est desire.'

Nous voguons, frêle esquifs au gré hasard!

Sans rancune! Phil

--Nick

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"John Rowland" wrote:

After all, how many of us Brits would recognise the flag of California?

If Arnold Schwarzenegger can do it, then how hard could it be? :-)

But he has a little computer in his brain for selecting answers to
questions.

a) California
b) Quebec
c) **** you asshole

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

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"The Green ******* from Parts Unknown" wrote
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David Richerby wrote:

[1] Does NI tend to team up with the
Republic for things like soccer and rugby

NI has its own soccer team. George Best and Pat Jennings played for them
(probably not at the same time).


Actually, Jennings was the goalkeeper in the majority of Best's matches for
NI - they even made their debuts together (against Wales in 1964).