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Thomas J Stamp
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Em, why do the Islands need a name?
The same way Greenland (which isnt actually one island, its several, just covered with ice) will become the Greenland Isles when the ice melts.

The name sadly comes from the Romans (damn them) who gaxed forth from Gaul and said:

"Er, Erasmus, what's that over there?"

"Well, Marcus, that there's your actual British Isles" "

How's that then Erasmus?"

"Because that's where the Britons live and theres, like, loads of islands"

"That'll create no end of petty political confusoin in about two thousand years time I'll bet"

"Absolutly. Let's go and kill some more ancestors of the Platform11 Publicity officer"

"You mean the one who runs this internet forum about the adventures of an alien in time and space?"

"Do you mean this:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=850 ?"

"That's a very good linlk, for a Roman"

"Why thank you"
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