You try telling the Spanish they are British Monkeys ;)

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Sent: 02 May 2007 23:54
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Subject: Re: [LU] The Monkey MUST die!


> 
> Yes napoleonic wars.......
>  
> No not myth
>  
> And the monkey was from the Rock which makes it 
> .......Spanish (at the time) british now

errr, hang on (sound of wikipedia being loaded) actually it was ceeded to
Britain in 1713 a whopping 80 years before napoleonic war and pictures of
the mythical monkey show it has a tail, where as barbary apes don't have
tail and aren't apes and the story is an exact copy of an earlier scottish
story, any moneys hanging from trees up there Betty?

ttfn

R


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