# Is there really a Chunnel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773 "2001-02-16T17:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/21 "2001-02-17T11:27:39Z")
The Belgium is actually a universal but vague measurement of area. Without the Belgium as this unit of measurement we would have no idea of,- How much rainforest is cut down every year. How much Canadian pine forest is replanted every yer. How big some US forest fires have been. How big some Australian ranches are. How large some of the recent super-icebergs are(this is vital knowledge as it might give us a clue about global warming) I’m sure there are others. Without the Belgium the UK would have had to find differant reasons to join WWI or postpone the event possibly until the rematch in 1939. Without the Belgium we would probably have had to make do with the Wales which is still used to this day by Brits opposed to metrication. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/22 "2001-02-17T13:37:39Z")
There is too a Belgium. I know, because I can speak Belch. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/23 "2001-02-17T13:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mattk \* > \*\*I bleeding well hope so. If not, that was a very realistic reconstruction of a tunnel that I travelled through last November, and the fake Paris set was very convincing too. \*\* Yeah, but how do we know that **you** exist? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/24 "2001-02-17T15:25:35Z")
Oh, **ruadh** , how can you say that? Did it mean that little to you? 😉 Besides, next you’ll be telling me that SuperJoos doesn’t exist… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/25 "2001-02-17T15:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mattk \* > \*\*Did it mean that little to you? \*\* Seems a pretty standard reply. Wasn’t someone’s deffinition of artificial intelligence that you would think you were talking to a real person? Hmmmm… GOTO START ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/26 "2001-02-17T15:33:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by mattk \* > > \*\*Did it mean that little to you? \*\* > > Seems a pretty standard reply. Wasn’t someone’s deffinition of artificial intelligence that you would think you were talking to a real person? > Hmmmm… > GOTO START > \*\* That’s the nicest compliment I’ve had in weeks. Nobody’s ever compared me to a real person before. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/27 "2001-02-17T16:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mattk \* > **Oh, ruadh, how can you say that? Did it mean that little to you? 😉** I’d answer this, but I’m not speaking to you at the moment :mad: Nothing personal, you understand. > [@](#): > > Besides, next you’ll be telling me that SuperJoos doesn’t exist… Well by the sounds of it he’s been pretty frigging nonexistent for the past 30 minutes anyway… ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/28 "2001-02-17T16:48:55Z")
ooops… never mind. Of course I _loooove_ you Matt 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/29 "2001-02-17T16:53:21Z")
Sorry. Just ignore this post and the one that preceded it. I’m going back to bed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773/30 "2001-02-17T18:43:09Z")
And with that we end this bizarre in-joke and return you to your normal SDMB viewing. [sub]Only one Barry Nicholson…[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-really-a-chunnel/54773.md?page=1)