Uriah Richardson has to keep up the Turkey pretence as otherwise he has to
admit that he has been lying to Mike Welch. Uriah _must_ live as otherwise
it is oh so clear who is the liar.
Leo van de Pas
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From: "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com>
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Royalty for Commoners (OT)
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"Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com> wrote in message
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Richardson is so stupid that he went looking for tidbits of information
about Turkey on travel agents' websites, and came up with this piece of
transparent balderdash: "the Turks between Gumbet and Gümüslük speak the
best English". As if the capacity to speak a second language emanates
from the soil or the water supply in small & clearly defined pockets of a
large country! How stupid does he think SGM's readers might be? Obviously
"Uriah" found some spiel about a particular holiday destination, trying
to suggest to British travellers that they would feel at home in the
promoted resort.
I was right - here it is:
http://travelforumz.com/-quiet-life-Bod ... pict6.html
The tidbit that "Uriah" Richardson found and plagiarised, after a week of
desperate searching, comes from a blurb of 26 July 2003, from TimesOnline
Travel, where Nicholas Roe served up the tripe that I quoted above. See
the 18th paragraph in particular:
"Pick any resort north of Gumbet, maybe missing out Turgutreis if
big-resort bustle bothers you, and you can't go far wrong, though bear in
mind that the resorts between Gumbet and Gümüslük speak the best English.
Farther north you hit villages such as Turkbuku, aimed at the local
market, and Torba, at the top, has many English speakers."
The opriginal can be found at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 90,00.html
Peter Stewart