Dean Hoffman snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote
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>> It sounds like Britain is going to shut down for a few days.
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>Nope. no shutdown, just a fancy funeral and
>lots wasting lots of flowers in various places.
What else would flowers do with their time if they didn't spend it at funerals and so forth?
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>> Do I have it right that the current Queen was
>> a military mechanic near the end of WWII?
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>Not so much a military mechanic as a driver. They
>were trained in how to fix what they were driving
>if it broke down when they were driving it.
At early races, like the Indianapolis 500, the drivers were accompanied by a mechanic. I guess cars didn't break down as much by the 1940's.
But she didn?t drive full time like the other drivers
>did and certainly didn?t get stuck in the barracks
>all the time when not driving either. And yes, she
>did drive more than car, also medium sized trucks.