Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> Some 35-40 years ago, when Edward Heath was a very pro-EEC Prime
> Minister, Harold Wilson was Leader of the Opposition (and of the Labour
> Party) and Jeremy Thorpe was Leader of the Liberal Party, the three of
> them were having a conversation in French with the then Prime Minister
> of France (probably Pompidou), with only Thorpe and Pompidou doing any
> real participating, the other two nodding their heads and say "oui, oui"
> from time to time. After a while Thorpe said, "you know, these two
> idiots don't understand a word we're saying", at which Pompidou laughed
> and the other two continued to beam and nod their heads.
Let's not make the mistake though, of calling someone an idiot just
because they don't understand a largley irrelevant language.
However, I'm not saying they weren't idiots.
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Paul.
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