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"Jim Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Preben Randhol wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:44:30 GMT, Pat Rogers wrote:
> >
> >>For that matter, in the UK we are called "Yanks" (not that the UK is part of
> >>Europe :-).
> >>
> >
> > Huh? What continent is UK part of?
>
>
> Politically or geographically?
>
> Last I heard, the UK was a member of the EU.
>
> Many Atlases and geographical texts include Greenland as part of
> North America. Similar logic would include the British Isles as
> part of Europe.

I needed more smiley's.  I know people, who are natives of England, who would
say that the UK is not part of Europe.  Europe is "over there".  They would be
grinning when they said it.