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From: R H Draney on 19 Feb 2010 21:40 Robert Bannister filted: > >Androcles wrote: >> >> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world plays >> football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's own version of >> parochial handball. One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe into possessive "its".... >'Scuse me, what's rubbish about the rest of world playing that scoreless >drama with a round ball? Footballs may be different sizes and weights >and even the shape varies a bit, but they are basically ovoid. The other >game is for kids in the street. *Poor* kids...with foreign accents...and brown skin....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this?
From: R H Draney on 19 Feb 2010 21:42 Bart Mathias filted: > >James Hogg wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> Andrew Usher >> >> Give the sound of your name, I suppose you would also renumber the >> years, with year 1 in what is now 4004 BC. > >Another one goes right over my head. What in the world is special about >how "Andrew Usher" sounds? > >Oh, never mind. I just googled "4004 BC." Guess you didn't need to have a house fall on you....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this?
From: R H Draney on 19 Feb 2010 21:44 Andrew Usher filted: > >On Feb 19, 6:07=A0pm, Robert Bannister <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> If you are going to try to make it sensible, then please give us 13 >> four-week months with one or two specially named days at the end of the >> year to even it out. The first day of each month should be a Monday. > >Having 13 months, in addition, would screw up a bunch of things ; in >particular, 13 can't be divided. Neither can seven, but very few calendar reformers have suggested that as a reason to change the length of the week....r -- A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this?
From: Androcles on 19 Feb 2010 22:29 "R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:hlni3r01mb3(a)drn.newsguy.com... > Robert Bannister filted: >> >>Androcles wrote: >>> >>> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world plays >>> football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's own version of >>> parochial handball. > > One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe into > possessive "its".... Oops... I forgot that is one possessive word that doesn't have an apostophe. My's mistake. What is "....", four thirds of an ellipsis ? >>'Scuse me, what's rubbish about the rest of world playing that scoreless >>drama with a round ball? Footballs may be different sizes and weights >>and even the shape varies a bit, but they are basically ovoid. The other >>game is for kids in the street. > > *Poor* kids...with foreign accents...and brown skin....r > > I don't know that word, what does "....r" mean?
From: Brian M. Scott on 19 Feb 2010 22:43
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:30:16 -0800 (PST), Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote in <news:af2de314-5e50-4662-8faa-75709ceb92d3(a)o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > On Feb 19, 4:56�pm, j...(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: [...] >> And trying to come up with a new calendar fixating on >> Christmas is about as logical as fixating on Waitangi >> Day. > This is just West-bashing. Don't be silly: New Zealand is part of the cultural west. Brian |