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From: Jonathan Kirwan on 3 Nov 2006 17:48 On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:23:29 -0000, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >Maybe they don't sell books in America........ :) They do. But in many American homes you won't see that many. Like 5. (And one is a bible they don't read that much -- and never the Sermon on the Mount, because they might actually have to consider the painful idea of not actually being a darned hypocrite.) In my home, I've a technical library numbering currently some 2,000 books spanning across all the walls of my 'office' room, which are a minimum of 10' high (to over 12'.) About 200 cu ft of shelf space in my office alone. More books, of course, elsewhere. A physicist friend of mine has a similar setup at home. Some of us do buy (and read) a lot of books to keep the bookstores happy. Jon
From: Jonathan Kirwan on 3 Nov 2006 17:58 On Fri, 03 Nov 06 10:51:53 GMT, lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >In article <ol2mk21801cc4qr8nlucsn4s7tf7sec426(a)4ax.com>, > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:09:30 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >>wrote: >> >>>You're an idiot. Fox is as slanted to the right as >>>CNN is the left. >> >>CNN leans to the left? Blimey. Are you American by any chance? > >Some even consider Fox liberal. I guess to some, as the saying goes, anyone >to the left of Atilla the Hun is a liberal. Hehe. Or anyone more caring more about others than Vlad the Impaler a "bleeding heart." Jon
From: T Wake on 3 Nov 2006 18:06 <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:DSN2h.784$7F3.783(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.com... > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message > news:caWdnZyZJ6XHOtbYRVnyjw(a)pipex.net... >> >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >> news:WRM2h.741$7F3.414(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.com... >>> >>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:454B96E3.580EEEFE(a)hotmail.com... >>>> >>>> >>>> T Wake wrote: >>>> >>>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>> >>>>> There are *some* areas where there are different goods / services but >>>>> there >>>>> is certainly no shortage of selection. >>>> >>>> Cheese ! God knows how many hundreds you can get here. The Americans >>>> certainly >>>> don't have the same wealth of choice. Wine probably too - and BEER ! >>>> We're well >>>> off for all of these. >>> >>> If you've not been to the US in a while, you might be surprised at the >>> choices of beer and wine we now have. In my opinion, California whites >>> and many reds have it *all* over France, Italy and Germany. The only >>> things that are rarer than hen's teeth here are a good dry Riesling, and >>> a Chardonnay that doesn't make you check your tongue for splinters. And >>> as for beer, there are literally hundreds of domestic microbrews that >>> are distributed all over the country now. It's not quite like Britain, >>> where I understand every town of any consequence has its own brew, but >>> certainly there are a lot, and many, many towns of more than 20,000 >>> people do have brewpubs, if not microbrewers that bottle and distribute. >>> Many of them are excellent. Even in the little hick backwater I lived >>> in recently, we could get some damn fine bitters, pale ales, brown ales >>> and the like. Import selection is quite impressive as well, particularly >>> from England and Belgium. I knew things were going well when I found >>> Old Peculier in a beer shop in a tiny little town of about 500 people in >>> the middle of nowhere. And they turned it over often enough that it was >>> still reasonably fresh. American tastes seem largely aligned with >>> British beer tastes--which in my opinion are far, far better than the >>> largely flavorless swill the Germans make. >> >> I am not a fan of wine so cant really comment one way or another. Some >> American beer is very nice (I went through a phase of hankering for the >> weird strawberry beers etc). > > Yeeech! I seriously hope that's not what you think is the best of > American beer! Not sure if it is the best, but I certainly did like it for a while... > Do you get much Sam Adams over there, or Sierra Nevada? They're my > favorite everyday, good-but-nothing-special beers. I haven't tried Sierra Nevada, but Sam Adams is OK. It isnt easy to find over here though. >> Still, the best has to be Kroneburg or Stella Artois :-) > > Stella is OK. It's not hoppy enough for my taste, and it's hard to find a > bottle or keg here that isn't skunky, even where it turns over heavily. That is a shame. It is (currently) my favourite - but that may change when I want more strawberrys... > It has to be the trip that kills it. Same with Heineken. > >> Hoegarden is pretty good as well. > > Yeah, I like a good spicy Belgian. Duvel and Corsendonk are my favorites > of that genre. > > Eric Lucas >
From: T Wake on 3 Nov 2006 18:07 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:454BB005.F2D563FC(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >> >> Still, the best has to be Kroneburg or Stella Artois :-) > > I'll be drinking some Stella later this evening. It's quite pleasant but > not my > fave, however the pub doesn't have my favourite, in fact draught Holsten > is very > rare indeed. > > >> Hoegarden is pretty good as well. > > I've never really got on with that. White beers are an acquired taste I > reckon. I find they make you too drunk, too fast. But that isn't always a bad thing.
From: unsettled on 3 Nov 2006 18:44
lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > news:5d1d4$454b8938$4fe77ae$1746(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >>I use a petroleum product to heat my home, my hot water >>and cooking. It is called LPG. Most people in my region >>are using propane. My closest neighbor uses propane as >>backup heat source, relying primarily on wood for space >>heating (cut and split their own) but cooking and domestic >>hot water are electric. > And all sources in that paragraph are domestically supplied, so are a > non-issue as regards dependence on the Middle East. I'll repeat, LPG comes from petroleum. Propane is LPG. What's wrong with you? |