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Re: The Kindle, revisted

my.spamt...@verizon.net (Roland Hutchinson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:06 UT

< silently uses one hand to lower other hand, which he uses to lower
other hand, which he uses... >

Re: Devil Dog / Double Dog

stephanie.mitch...@telenet.be (tsuidf) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:18:46 UT

I'm disappointed... I thought this was going to be a thread about
reminscences of childhood food -- see: [link]
. This sort of thing seemed to feature heavily in the lunchboxes of
the 1960s in the northeastern US. Surely mostly chemical, but -- oh,
the memories!
cheers,

Re: The Kindle, revisted

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:16:38 UT

Chuck Riggs filted:
Oh, the *real* intellectuals liked it too, what they could understand of
it...it's just unfortunate that Hofstadter's subsequent books didn't make a
similarly large splash...(show of hands, please, all who actually read both
"Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" and "Le Ton Beau de Marot" all the way

Re: Are you ever delighted?

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:13:07 UT

Chuck Riggs filted:
It wasn't always thus...there was a time when "delight" just meant a feeling
pleasant enough that you couldn't help grinning....
I blame the Starland Vocal Band....r

Re: Supermarket research

dadoc...@spamcop.net (R H Draney) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:10:43 UT

James Hogg filted:
I can cut and paste them into a new browser tab, and they work...must be
something about trying to get there through Newsguy....r

Re: Ishiguro: chest was still heaving and his legs shaking

raymond-oh...@hotmail.com (Ray O'Hara) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:07:57 UT

You have one chest but two legs.

Re: Courts cannot travel through time

my.spamt...@verizon.net (Roland Hutchinson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:55:21 UT

That was originally done to confuse the Hessians, I suppose.
They put up signs on many of the main streets in time for the
Bicentennial festivities in 1976, having perhaps concluded that the
hostilities were safely over.

Re: Nouns and adjectives in chess

oldla...@verizon.net (John Varela) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:34:36 UT

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:01:53 UTC, the Omrud

Red in tooth and claw, innit?

Re: Courts cannot travel through time

oldla...@verizon.net (John Varela) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:30:43 UT

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:11:34 UTC, Chuck Riggs <chri...@eircom.net>
wrote:
2> roads, with their surprise exit signs, when there are signs at
all,
Part of its old-world charm is that they never put up a street sign
that tells you the name of the street you're on. All the cross
streets, yes, but the main drag that you're on, no. At least,

Re: Hot dogs and onions

my.spamt...@verizon.net (Roland Hutchinson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:28:38 UT

Wasn't the Plymouth Miasma is what carried off so many of the Pilgrim
Fathers (and Mothers and Children) that first winter in Massachusetts?

Re: Nouns and adjectives in chess

my.spamt...@verizon.net (Roland Hutchinson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:26:38 UT

Ironically, in view of their position in the game, they were largely done
in by the great White hunters.

Re: Courts cannot travel through time

oldla...@verizon.net (John Varela) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:23:49 UT

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:48:48 UTC, Evan Kirshenbaum

My wife and I experienced something similar in Rome, the differences
being that it was raining at dusk and we were still far from our
hotel.

Re: Courts cannot travel through time

my.spamt...@verizon.net (Roland Hutchinson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:23:35 UT

Unless you are driving a car that is sufficiently beat up that even the
taxicabs get out of its way. (We once had a beat-up Nissan sedan that
was purchased second-hand for $600. Manhattan cab drivers gave it
_extremely_ wide berth, figuring that it must be driven by a maniac and
that they had far more to lose than we did.)

Re: Ishiguro: chest was still heaving and his legs shaking

bull...@gmail.com (Andrew B.) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:19:04 UT

[link]

Re: Supermarket research

jas.h...@goutmail.com (James Hogg) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:13:10 UT

And me on the other side of the Atlantic.