"Dale" wrote in message
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On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:10:19 GMT, (Derek Lyons) wrote:

It's scary where the Soviets/Russians can go... When they visit
Bangor they carry a stick whose length equals the diameter of a
Trident missile (-I in my day, -II now I suppose), if they find a door
wider than the stick, they can legally demand entrance.

Why is that "scary"?

Well, see with the fact that Americans are getting fatter, they're needing
to make the doors to the bathrooms wider and.. well, it's not a pretty
picture.

Seriously though I'm sure we do something similar when we visit them.



Dale