"Ron" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:12:11 -0500, George Shirley
> > wrote:
>
>>Dimitri wrote:
>>>
>>> "Steve Pope" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Dimitri > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>>> Doctors are under pressure to report her parents
>>>>>> to the police.
>>>>
>>>>> Unbelievable.
>>>>
>>>> Not really; before they started adding Vitamin D to milk, all
>>>> sorts of people had rickets because they were too dumb to know
>>>> enough to deliberately consume it.
>>>>
>>>> "Fortified foods represent the major dietary sources of vitamin D,
>>>> as very few foods naturally contain significant amounts of vitamin D"
>>>> (Wikipedia)
>>>>
>>>> Couple this with the fact that while the UK has lots of vegetarians,
>>>> nearly all of them are ovo-lactoids, so there's not a general
>>>> culture among vegetarians there of worrying about vitamin D.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>> No sunlight in the UK?
>>>
>>> Maybe they kept her in a darkened room or bathed her in sunscreen
>>>
>>>
>>> http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.asp
>>>
>>>
>>Not really a lot of sunshine in the UK. "A good day in the UK is like
>>looking up a chimney, a bad day is like looking down a chimney."
>>
>>Exerpted from a book I used to have that, I think, was titled, "1000
>>jokes about Great Britain."
>
> Having spent 90 days in the U.K. (at the request of the USAF), I can
> safely say I could count on the fingers of one hand the days I could
> see my shadow distinctly. Most days were "high overcast". The air
> was crystal clear, but the sky was a uniform light gray. Some days
> the fog was so thick you literally could not see more than ten feet
> ahead of yourself.
>
> As a side note, the countryside is beautiful and the people are
> gracious and kind to wandering yanks.
>

Aye, but stay off the moors at night. Stick to the road I tell ya.

Paul