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From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 18:58 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:02:40 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> --- >> LOL, given enough time, typewriters, and monkeys, the Britannica >> would emerge, miraculously, from those platens, >> >> Get real, Bruere, are you saying that England could have won the war >> without the help of the US? > >Not without the material imports from the US, but Britain might have >come out of WW2 in far better shape had the US not joined in militarily. >That would have left the USSR crushed, Nazi Germany severely weakened >and the British Empire intact. --- Mighta, woulda, coulda, shoulda... It's all water under the bridge and bullshit conjecture on your part. Things worked out the way they did and we have what we have, so why don't you stop your grousing about what might have been? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Jim Yanik on 3 Aug 2006 18:41 John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote in news:u94dDGrJIk0EFwNE(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk: > In message <spd4d2p94a17j8g2sfqo5rp33c28mp37m2(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 > Aug 2006, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> writes >>Think about this: What do you think would happen if we weren't here? > > The oceans would drain away into the hole? Nonsense is all you could come up with? -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
From: bill.sloman on 3 Aug 2006 19:00 Don Bowey wrote: > On 8/3/06 9:56 AM, in article b4idneTprZqItk_ZRVnygw(a)bt.com, "Reg Edwards" > <g4fgq.regp(a)ZZZbtinternet.com> wrote: <snipped a reasoned, if somewhat provocative, discusion of the U.S. situation in Irak> > > > > That is what I call the raving rants of an ignorant old fart. Wow! And this is what we call pig-ignorant jeering from the peanut gallery. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 19:08 On 3 Aug 2006 15:19:07 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >John Fields wrote: >> --- >> I write at several levels simultaneously. Didn't you notice? ;) > >Nice try. --- That's a 'no', then? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: bill.sloman on 3 Aug 2006 19:10
Phat Bytestard wrote: > On 2 Aug 2006 19:16:04 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us: > > >If his brains > > Double posting now, SlowMan? How many years have you been in > Usenet? Oh... that's right... you are too pathetic to care about > conventions. I blame the link - I didn't get an acknowledgement for ages, and thought that I failed to click the send icon .... -- Bill Sloman, Ninjmegen |