Re: German steam locos for coal traffic?

Roderick Smith (rodsmith@werple.net.au)
10 Apr 1998 12:02:23 GMT

AFAIK the french for April is avril; aout is August.
There was an unwitting multicultural pun in the address: I had thought that
bigbond was an allusion to the french term for April fool: poisson d'avril.

I am assured that an international report on the new Russian government
provatising the railways was also an April fool. The report stated that
the most likely buyers would be from USA.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor


One man's meat is another man's poisson.






Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in article 
>  It seems that most responders recognised an April Fool's Day joke
> when they saw it (except one), but attributed the gullibility to the
> original poster, a person named, curiously enough, as "Aout Premier".
> That's (more or less), french for April 1st.