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Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

m...@peterduncanson.net (Peter Duncanson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 21:04:54 UT

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:56:39 -0000, "Buddenbrooks"
Indeed. To make a point I sometimes refer to flood plains as
"temporarily dry river beds".

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

knightstemp...@budweiser.com (Buddenbrooks) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:39 UT

> Not usually. Fortunately.
Is that not the problem, we build on flood plains because no one remembers
it ever flooding.

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

m...@peterduncanson.net (Peter Duncanson) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:31:50 UT

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:07:46 -0600, Michelle Masters <nu...@nowhere.com>
wrote:
Not usually. Fortunately.

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

t...@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk (Tim Lamb) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:06:28 UT

In message <EtKdnYhiP7BP35TWnZ2dnUVZ_omdn ...@giganews.com>, Michelle
Masters <nu...@nowhere.com> writes
I have a vision of a three branch cactus sticking out of a biblical
flood:-)
No. Jim's bit sticks up more than the rest of us so he tends to catch
what's available.
I'm told it is all to do with the jet stream.

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

%ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 19:08:45 UT

God no, not since I stopped working for Raytheon.

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

nu...@nowhere.com (Michelle Masters) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 18:53:55 UT

LOL :-)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

knightstemp...@budweiser.com (Buddenbrooks) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 18:29:41 UT

> Oh it's not that big. It's only the size of France. Heh, that must make
Not planning a trip to Texas soon then :)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

knightstemp...@budweiser.com (Buddenbrooks) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 18:26:17 UT

"y'all" and "whomever" in the
I think American and English follow the same grammar rules. 'y'all' fills
a hole in English vocabulary I am surprised it has not moved
into standard usage.

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

%ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:34 UT

Oh it's not that big. It's only the size of France. Heh, that must make
you all cheese-eating surrender monkeys :-)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

oldcod...@anyoldwhere.net (Old Codger) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 17:20:03 UT

What's to be unhappy about. I am retired, have enough to live on - for
the moment at least - and I woke up this morning. Life must be good. :-)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

nu...@nowhere.com (Michelle Masters) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 17:07:46 UT

Wow! That looks like a Texas rain, rather than a UK one. Y'all don't
get downpours like that very often, do ya?

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

nu...@nowhere.com (Michelle Masters) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 17:01:03 UT

Yes, I think living in Texas has warped my image of the size of things
in the rest of the world, literally :-)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

nu...@nowhere.com (Michelle Masters) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:40 UT

LOL :-) I see.
Hmmm....I wonder what made me think that?? Ok, trying to replace memory
image related to the name Derek Moody :-)
When I do get over that way again, I'll definitely let y'all know, so I
can have the opportunity to meet whomever it's possible to get together
with. Just occurred to me that I used "y'all" and "whomever" in the

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

knightstemp...@budweiser.com (Buddenbrooks) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 14:48:24 UT

>
On Texas scale about the same as a trip from Fort Worth to Dallas :~)

Re: Making Your Small Business Look Big

de...@farm-direct.co.uk (Derek Moody) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 14:32:29 UT

In article <L76dnUM-z-ap2JTWnZ2dnUVZ_vudn ...@giganews.com>, Michelle Masters
There's damp and there's *damp*...
That explains the ear trouble ;-)

No. South of England but Ireland is one of my irregular stamping grounds
(actually splashing would be more accurate as I'm usually fishing.)
Ah! another excuse for a trip.