"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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From Helen Young's survey of weather around the
world on 29 July on the BBC Weather Centre site:

"Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, has made
an appeal for international aid to help his flood stricken
country. Over 300 people have died and thousands
have been left destitute after rivers burst their banks
during the monsoon."

I have studied the thread and I have to say I haven't any more
clue now what
you are getting at than I had when I read the original posting.

Philip. Please explain.

Well, amid all the noise, Steve Howarth explained. The Bangladeshi
Prime Minister is a woman. I'm not a political or current affairs
anorak but I knew that and I would certainly have expected
Ms Young, who is a bright person and geography graduate, to
know that ... or at the very least to have checked it. The "a" at
the end of her Chri E E E forename might also have given a clue.
The thread heading was, forgive me, mildly sarcastic.

Now, spot the oxymoron gr

Philip Eden