On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:00:04 GMT, David CL Francis
wrote:

The National Health Service I think you will find it is called.

True, but everyone in Manchester called it the Health Scheme.

When I came home from England, I was drafted, and in time I was sent
overseas. We had to get our teeth fixed up first. By luck of the draw
I got the colonel in charge (one avoids high-ranking officers in the
army medical corps: why would a good dentist stay in the service?). He
drilled out one of my British fillings, then called all the
lieutenants and captains around him (leaving a room full of GIs with
their mouths propped open). "Look at this!" he cried. "Red mercury! I
haven't seen that since the 1930s!"

This was all some time ago, of course.


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