On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:20:51 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote:


"JennyC" wrote in message
...

"Jim Webster"
wrote
They call the relative pimples in Arrochar in Scotland, the "Arrochar
Alps" :-)

there are alps just outside Ulverston which barely warrant being called
hills!
I suspect it derives from the meaning "hill pasture" or 'mountain
pasture'
Jim Webster

Ha - here in Holland our tallest mountain is 110metres above sea level.
They supply oxygen masks for climbers "~)
Jenny (living 6 metres BELOW sea level!)


I believe that the Dutch can suffer from vertigo as they stand on the kerb
looking down onto the road surface ;-))

I heard they get vertigo looking up :-))


Angus Macmillan
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All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)