Re: [Rollei] History

[Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie >]

Hi Jay,
I am going to France tomorrow. It is the second time to France this 
year. I have also travelled to Australia, Malaysia, Bahrain, USA, 
Canada, Spain (3 times), Italy and Germany (5 times) so far this year. 
This is typical of the last 28 years for me.
Frank

On 30 Jun, 2004, at 19:18, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Never leave your country....you might be disappointed with the rest of 
> the world....
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Frank Dernie
> To: rollei  us
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rollei] History
>
> My great uncle, a fairly wealthy man, absolutely refused to have a
> toilet in the house. He thought it was an absolutely disgusting idea.
> My relatives who lived with him had a toilet room installed as soon as
> he died. They had had a lovely bathroom but the toilet was outside in
>  the courtyard. I must say I dislike having a toilet in the bathroom,
>  something I have to put up with in many hotels.
> Frank
>
> On 30 Jun, 2004, at 13:06, Bob Shell wrote:
>
> > Hell, they still live on dirt floors!!  Back when I did my first book
> > for Hove Press I was very surprised on my first visit to them to find
> > that their warehouse had a dirt floor!  Later they moved to more
> > upscale premises, but you still had to go out the back door and 
> across
> > the "garden" to visit the privy!!  I'm happy to say that they now 
> have
> > an ultra modern facility with concrete floor and indoor facilities. 
> > But someone else took over their previous "digs" and still run
> > businesses from them.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 10:30  PM, Aaron Reece wrote:
> >
> >>> But for the most part, you had a borderline Neolithic culture that
> >>> still
> >>> lived on dirt floors, never mind sanitation.
> >>
> >> Slobodan:
> >> I don't know, the area of Great Britain is 88,795 square miles, so a
> >> population of 10 millions yields a population density of
> >> approximately 113 per square mile. According to the 2000 census,
> >> modern-day West Virginia has a population density of 75.08 per 
> square
> >> mile, so applying a liberal fudge factor owing to the mountainous
>  >> nature of WV's terrain, I would say that 113/sq. mi.  would be just
> >> doable for a borderline Neolithic culture that still lived on dirt
>  >> floors.
> >
>

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