Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!flinn From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Ethnic Engineering Message-ID: <501@seismo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 08:58:33 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.501 Posted: Mon Jan 2 08:58:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jan-84 02:35:26 EST Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 10 An construction company responded to the British- French request for proposals to build the Channel Tunnel connecting England to France. During the presentation the representative said that they would start tunnelling from Dover eastwards and from Boulogne westward, and meet in the middle. A government representative asked what would happen if they failed to meet in the middle; the replied, "then you will have two channel tunnels..."