From: R H Draney on
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


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From: R H Draney on
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


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From: R H Draney on
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


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From: Androcles on

"R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> 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
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:30:16 -0800 (PST), Andrew Usher
<k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote in
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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