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From: T Wake on 26 Nov 2006 09:11 <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:tn8ah.15760$9v5.11356(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... > > "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:phineaspuddleduck-CFED3B.14281925112006(a)free.teranews.com... >> In article <phineaspuddleduck-DA5DCC.14260525112006(a)free.teranews.com>, >> Phineas T Puddleduck <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> They do NOT have a uniform political basis tho. >> >> To add. Although the act of Union between England and Wales meant that >> Welsh Law (codified mainly by Hywel Dda) was superceded by English Law >> (even though in a lot of ways Hywel's laws were better) - the act of >> Union between Scotland and England did not - there is a wealth of >> Scottish law that is unique to them. > > Yes, but I wanna know who ended up with all the unused vowels. :-) They were shipped off to Denmark. Unfortunately, subsequent invasions brought them back :-)
From: unsettled on 26 Nov 2006 09:12 John Fields wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:34:45 +0000, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> >>unsettled wrote: >> >> >>>Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: >>> >>>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>What's the matter? You have to stoop to snip-forging? You are >>>>>areal piece of work. I think that's enough of you! >>>> >>>> >>>>Thats pretty rich coming from a poster who has to try hard to be >>>>noticeable, let alone interesting. It seems the quality of political >>>>debate in the UK is far more mature as we grew out of calling people >>>>"leftist" or "rightist" as insults quite a while ago. >>> >>>Yes indeed, and grew cruder in the process. >> >>The USA has taken crudity to an entirely new level. > > > --- > Yes, now we even _talk_ to Brits. > > Try to, actually. But it doesn't seem to work, they continue to think the world revolves around them.
From: Eeyore on 26 Nov 2006 09:12 Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > And of course politicians too. > > > > The classic one here is blaming the other party for the shortcomings of the > > NHS as if they all hadn't played their part in it. It gets very shallow very > > quickly. > > Its also common to see an opposition attacking the party in government > for pushing change "A" when the opposition made it part of the election > manifesto/were about to do it themselves. Pathetic isn't it. Graham
From: T Wake on 26 Nov 2006 09:12 <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:co8ah.15761$9v5.12967(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... > > "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:phineaspuddleduck-CFED3B.14281925112006(a)free.teranews.com... >> In article <phineaspuddleduck-DA5DCC.14260525112006(a)free.teranews.com>, >> Phineas T Puddleduck <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> They do NOT have a uniform political basis tho. >> >> To add. Although the act of Union between England and Wales meant that >> Welsh Law (codified mainly by Hywel Dda) was superceded by English Law >> (even though in a lot of ways Hywel's laws were better) - the act of >> Union between Scotland and England did not - there is a wealth of >> Scottish law that is unique to them. > > Actually, what I *really* wanna know is, who decided that it was a good > idea to make "w" a vowel. Depends if you see "y" as a vowel.
From: John Fields on 26 Nov 2006 09:15
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:36:36 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Don Bowey wrote: >> > >> > Oregon has it's own medical plan. >> >> And a fine job they do, letting their mental patients run free to >> make threatening phone calls to people. One has lost multiple ISP >> accounts for threatening people online, been bared from the local >> Wal-Mart, and arrested for trying to run over someone, as well. > >Under the NHS he would be 'sectioned'. --- From: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sectioned sec�tion (skshn) n. 1. A cut or division. 2. The act or process of separating or cutting, especially the surgical cutting or dividing of tissue. 3. A thin slice, as of tissue, suitable for microscopic examination. v. 1. To separate or divide into parts. 2. To cut or divide tissue surgically. And you think the US is crude??? -- JF |