On 20 Nov 2003, at 2:55 pm, Charles Pearce wrote: > I'm embarrassed and ashamed I'm just baffled! This sounds like a story from the 1940s: a competition among *students* for the wedding of a lifetime... not free beer for life, or the chance to burn a flag to embarrass a visiting politician and his flunkies? The US and UK are obviously divided by a lot more than a mere common language. Andrew