Re: Was: Happy Days, was: LBCs in Argentina NOW: VIEW ON HISTORY

[gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)]

On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 09:58:21 +0100 Hert <hert@wxs.nl> writes:
SNIP SNIP
>
. Later the islands were
>handed over to the Brits in exchange for an OD tranny and a
>factory hardtop (not true, but necessary for the LBC reference).

Which another example a bad territorial trade. Can you imagine how much
an OD tranny AND a factory hard top are worth???
 Of course, the worst example in history is the trade of handful of beads
for Manhatten Island. The indians are still smirking about that one!!!!
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget  

>Cheers,
>
>Peter
>74 Exocet
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