[OSM-talk] Sealand

Michael Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Mon Nov 26 09:07:12 GMT 2007


At 06:32 PM 11/25/2007, Simon Huggins wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:25:46PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:04:27PM +0000, David Earl wrote:
> > > Come on, it's none of these - it's someone's little joke!
> > > It's appears to be a man made platform in the North Sea, with no
> > > official status.
> > "Since 1967, the installation has been occupied by associates and family
> > of Paddy Roy Bates, a former radio broadcaster and former British Army
> > Major, who claims that it is a sovereign and independent state.[5]"
>
> >  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
>
> > Whether Sealand is a sovereign state or not appears, from the Wikipedia
> > article, to be a matter of some political debate -- but it does not
> > appear to be a 'joke', just a difference of opinion or interpretation.
>
>By that principle I hereby declare that the shed in my back garden to be
>a sovereign and independent state which I shall henceforth call
>BullShitLand.
>
>Can you suggest the tagging I should use for BullShitLand please?

bullshit=yes ?  :-)






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