The Average Englishman.

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The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his the national costume - a shabby raincoat - patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives a car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Vetinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.

At the office he recieves mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexhander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At home in the evening his Daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.


He watches the news on TV, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the U.S Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find the first man named in the good book is a Scot - King James VI - who authorised its translation.

He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the World.

He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with Penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland and given Chloroform, an anaesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning that he was "as safe as the Bank of England", founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a tranfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask....

"WHA'S LIKE US?"
 
The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his the national costume - a shabby raincoat - patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives a car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Vetinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.

At the office he recieves mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexhander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At home in the evening his Daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.


He watches the news on TV, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the U.S Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find the first man named in the good book is a Scot - King James VI - who authorised its translation.

He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the World.

He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with Penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland and given Chloroform, an anaesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning that he was "as safe as the Bank of England", founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a tranfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask....

"WHA'S LIKE US?"

Rowland Hill Invents Adhesive Postage Stamps

A schoolmaster from England, Rowland Hill invented the adhesive postage stamp in 1837

historians do agree that Ernest Michaux did invent the modern bicycle pedal and cranks in 1861.
 
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