Re: [OT] Overruning
From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@w...>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:46:08 +1000
Subject: Re: [OT] Overruning
From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
> > > The rest of us feel superior to the French because we
> > > manage NOT to get our home countries overrun 2.5 times
> > > in 70 years.
> >
> > Occupational hazard of living next door to Germany.
> > Just ask the Poles.
>
> Actually, getting overrun by unfriendly neighbours is pretty much an
> occupational hazard of living almost anywhere in Europe, in any period
> (OK, except Western Europe in the last half century - and England).
Fair comment that. And even England - Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes,