MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Most exciting thread title ever, right? And yet here you are. But check this out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41393230
American chap signed up to a bike race in what he thought was Birmingham, Alabama; turned out to be Birmingham, England. With really quite awesome consequences.
That IS unexpectedly ace - thanks! 🙂
bike [s]race [/s] ride
Still a nice story!
Mia culpa, yes.
If you're going to go Latin, at least get it right! "Mea culpa".
😉
I do like this story, though. A lovely sense of, "Aww, heck! Why not? Let's do it!"
Nice story.
Reminds me of the one from earlier in the year about the couple who booked a holiday, found cheap flights from Brum to somewhere like Florida. Really cheap flights.
Turned up at the airport to be told that they'd booked flights from Birmingham, Alabama, and not from the jewel of the midlands*.
*not a real epithet.
If you're going to go Latin, at least get it right! "Mea culpa".
Indeed. I knew that, I just wasn't paying attention.
Anything else I got wrong or are you done? (-:
How long have you got?
🙂
Hoopingarner is a great name and may well be bestowed on my next cat
Sounds like a character from "Hitchhiker's Guide".
I'd have thought paying the entry fee in Sterling might have been a slight give-away...
awesome consequences.
Err no. He's coming back again, that's it.