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Old September 7th, 2012, 09:52 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
JohnT[_8_]
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Default Whitby, as seen in 1921


"Erilar" wrote in message
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Irwell wrote:

There is an annotated version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula",
probably explains it in there. I read it whilst in hospital,
one of the nurses thought it was an odd choice of a book
to read in a hospital.


Oh, I dunno .... seems totally appropriate to me! (The medical
profession being "bloodsuckers" in more ways than one, at least here in
the U.S.) (;-)



When I have to go to the clinic for a blood test, I have been known to say
I was visiting the vampires 8-)


Very droll. I tell them I have given an armful but I doubt that you know the
significance of that because you will never have heard of Tony Hancock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Donor
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JohnT