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From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 17:24 Eeyore wrote: > > > Don Bowey wrote: > >> Also, you should not put a space at the end of a sentence ahead of the >> punctuation. > > You don't like this ? Tough ! I do it for readability. > > Graham With the result of reducing it. That's ok, go your own way. Disrupt accustomed visual parsing all you want. The "Next" button is easy to find. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 17:31 Eeyore wrote: > > > John Woodgate wrote: > >> In message <44D390B7.75A4B9D1(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Fri, 4 Aug >> 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >> >> >The UN plan didn't give Israel all the territory. >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UN_Partition_Plan_For_Palestine_1947. >> >png >> >> That was never going to work, was it. Three bits, two joined by a narrow >> corridor and the third completely separate. And huge long borders with, >> at least, unfriendly people, if not actively hostile. >> >> A real 'horse designed by a committee'. > > Presumably done by taking into account the local population distribution. > Seems you can't win. It was a British plan btw ! > > Graham Not surprizing, most of the borders, for hundreds of years, in the Sainai peninsula have been drawn and redrawn by europeans. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Eeyore on 6 Aug 2006 17:33 Phat Bytestard wrote: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:31:20 GMT, Sandbox Moderator > <yahright(a)example.com> Gave us: > > >Bill, please don't trollfeed. It's unseemly. > > Dude, you are retarded. Your new nym proves that beyond doubt. It's not a *new* nym Mr Unobservant. Graham
From: Eeyore on 6 Aug 2006 17:32 Phat Bytestard wrote: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:12:18 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > > >Phat Bytestard wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:29:14 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" > >> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: > >> > >> > Yes, it does. If you're in the paper products or produce business. > >> >It would be damn hard to make money selling apples and other fruit > >> >without growing them on trees. It would also be very hard to build > >> >decent homes without lumber, which grows on trees, as well. > >> > >> Yep... even the media that the "money" got printed on came from > >> trees. > > > >Rag has been traditionally used actually ! You can't get much right can you ? > > Where do you think rag comes from, twit? Not from trees - twit ! Graham
From: bill.sloman on 6 Aug 2006 18:36
Phat Bytestard wrote: > On 5 Aug 2006 20:12:43 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us: > > > but the > >clowns that run your governement at the moment don't even listen to > >their own advisors. > > > Actually, that is exactly what they do do. Check out the "Saddam is buying uranium in Niger" story. Not only did your government ignore its own advisors, but they went out of their way to shoot the messenger - Joseph Wilson - by outing his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA agent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_Affair You really ought to be able to remember this - it got considerable and persistent media attention. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |