Re: White Coat Day

On 14 Jun, 14:42, tony cooper <tony_cooper...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:25:48 -0400, Roland Hutchinson

<my.spamt...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Maurer wrote:

White Coat Day -- a ritual event for first year
medical students when en masse they dress the part
of doctors.

ObAFC: today is Flag Day.

We seem to have let the 40th anniversary of the original Multics flag day
pass unobserved a year ago today.

Does France have a White Flag Day?


I realise that the French have now become bêt^H^H^H black beasts in
the USA, but does this reputation for cowardice pre-date the Iraq
war?

In the UK, the archetypal serial surrenders have traditionally been
the Italians. [1] We do ascribe negative characteristics to the
French, but being cowardly is not usually one of them.

Mike M

[1] Q. What is the world's thinnest book? A. "Great Italian War
Heroes"
Q. How many gears does an Italian tank have? A. Six - one forward, and
five reverse.
Q. Who put the last bullet into Mussolini? A. Fifty Italian
sharpshooters
etc. etc.




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