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From: PaulJK on 4 Mar 2010 23:36 John Holmes wrote: > PaulJK wrote: >> >> When I lived in Toorak, Melbourne Cup Day was definitely >> a paid state holiday. > > I don't think so. It has only ever been a holiday in the Melbourne area, > not statewide. Once you are more than about 80-100 km from Melbourne, > you find they have their own country race day or agricultural show day > local holidays on other dates instead. Okay, I am happy to be corrected. I never researched it when I lived there. It was just an impression I formed at the time. pjk
From: PaulJK on 4 Mar 2010 23:47 Peter Moylan wrote: > John Holmes wrote: >> PaulJK wrote: >>> >>> When I lived in Toorak, Melbourne Cup Day was definitely >>> a paid state holiday. >> >> I don't think so. It has only ever been a holiday in the Melbourne area, >> not statewide. Once you are more than about 80-100 km from Melbourne, >> you find they have their own country race day or agricultural show day >> local holidays on other dates instead. >> > Agreed. Melbourne Cup Day has never been a holiday in NSW. I didn't suggest that. I spent a few years living in NSW too and I know it never was a holiday over there. I thought it was a state holiday in VIC. But John says it's never been even that. pjk
From: tony cooper on 5 Mar 2010 00:17 On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:47:53 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> wrote: >On Mar 1, 8:35�am, tony cooper <tony_cooper...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:51:09 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" >> >> >> >> >> >> <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >Don't be ridiculous. Washington's Birthday is February 22 (Gregorian), >> >> >and Presidents' Day was observed on Feburary 15. >> >> >> Your foot's bleeding again. Have the bullet removed before the wound >> >> festers. >> >> >> Washington's Birthday was officially shifted to the third Monday in >> >> February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971. The federal >> >> holiday has never officially been changed to President's Day. >> >> >> The change was made 39 years ago. You've never noticed? >> >> >In some states, we think Lincoln was pretty important, too. >> >> >We note that you moved to a part of the country where Lincoln is >> >despised. >> >> If there's an anti-Lincoln sentiment in Florida I'm not aware of it. >> To be honest about it - and I should be when Abe is involved - Lincoln >> really isn't the subject of many conversations around here. � > >That says something right there. >> Is your "We" an insular "We" or a Royal "We"? �For what group do you >> speak? �New Yorkers, linguists, or generally-considered-to-be-potty >> cross-posters? > >If you have so much trouble interpreting simple English, why do you >hang around a.u.e.? > >The "we" are the residents of New York and Illinois. What are we missing, then, here in Florida? Is Lincoln a daily conversational topic in New York and down-state Illinois? I know he isn't in Chicago because I lived there. I mean we talked about Lincoln Park, and I lived on Lincoln Park West for a while, but we didn't discuss Abe very often. We could go for months on end without ever bringing Abe into the conversation. There are some people in Springfield and New Salem who talk about Abe frequently, but they are tour guides. And, I am still confused about your usage of "we". "We", to me, means more than one person and "resident of" means where you live. You are a resident of New Jersey, but not a resident of either New York or Illinois, so who's the "we"? Even though you once lived in Illinois, you are not now a resident of Illinois. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: Adam Funk on 5 Mar 2010 07:17 On 2010-03-04, R H Draney wrote: > Adam Funk filted: >>Google groupers' FUs usually have a bunch of 0xA0 characters. > > And a "Show quoted text"/"Hide quoted text" skidmark....r Nice terminology! Did you come up with that, or have I missed a memo? -- I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it. Networked software, especially, requires frequent updates and maintenance, all of which gets in the way of doing routine work. (Stoll 1995)
From: Glenn Knickerbocker on 5 Mar 2010 17:53
On 03/03/2010 02:47 AM, Nick wrote: > structure of my post it's /wrong/. It's the /first/ space of a doublet > that should be non-breaking (so it remains at the end of the previous > line). Otherwise Google is telling people to break my sentences with a > space at the start. > Like this. Aha, now I understand why the ancient Netscape I still use for mail on this machine sometimes breaks sentences like that. I noticed that the newest Thunderbird has just the opposite problem: It treats the first space as nonbreaking, as you expect, but the nonbreaking space doesn't collapse into the right-hand margin, so when I type a double space that starts at the margin it moves the previous word onto a new line. >> > I still think it would be nice if mail and news tools left 8-bit data >> > unencoded when it didn't use any of the code points that differ > When I wrote it, of course, it didn't. Even when you quoted Peter's quote, it still didn't--but Gnus encoded it for you anyway. That's what I wish didn't happen. ¬R |