Re: Pop vs. soda

2002-10-25 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/ They have a *map* showing the geographical distribution of terms. Do they have another map showing political affiliation with respect to what one calls a carbonated beverage? :) Lemon, Sugar, Honey

Re: test

2002-10-25 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If you do not know of it, you should check out a New Zealand comic strip, Footrot Flats, and the cat named Horse. It is a fitting name. G Thanks for the suggestion - I'll have to see if I can find any of the books. Here's a 'bio' (toonio?) on the cat named

RE: test

2002-10-25 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 08:44 PM 10/24/02, Nick Arnett wrote: Once you're dung, we can test. To see if the satellite phone still works, like they did in Jurassic Park 3? --Ronn! :) Bathroom humor is an American-Standard. ___

Re: mobile phones

2002-10-25 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 10:47 PM 10/24/02, The Fool wrote: LONDON (Reuters) - Italian scientists have raised new health concerns about the safety of using mobile phones, with research showing radio waves from the handsets makes cancerous cells grow more aggressively. I think that they still pose a far greater

Re: test

2002-10-25 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 03:48 PM 10/23/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote: At 15:49 22-10-2002 -0700, Debbi Harrell wrote: I've sent 2 messages (re: the UN) in the past 15 minutes, but they haven't made it - at least to my computer. I get the impression that there is something wrong with either Nick's server or with his

Re: mobile phones

2002-10-25 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:47:39PM -0500, The Fool wrote: When Fiorenzo Marinelli and his colleagues at the National Research Council in Bologna exposed leukemia cells in the laboratory to 48 hours of continuous radio waves they initially killed the cancer cells but then made the surviving

Re: The UN

2002-10-25 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:59:37AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: (And I'll feel better about *my* response if I get confirmation from Erik at some point.) You are right as usual, Julia. The UN Security Council needs 9 yea's and no vetos from any of the 5 permanent members to pass. Since Dan

RE: Italian author slams Islam's 'hate' for West

2002-10-25 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:30 23-10-2002 -0400, Joe Hale wrote: This author makes a good point. People who claim Islam is a religion of peace are turning a blind eye to history. If Islam was a religion of peace there would never have been a Battle of Tours. The Moslems are currently fighting the Christians, Jews,

RE: The UN

2002-10-25 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:05 23-10-2002 -0500, John Horn wrote: That is to say, by that rule, England should have done nothing while Hitler took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. England does not have borders with those countries, so when Hitler attacked them, England was not under attack. So what

Re: Question for everyone

2002-10-25 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:21 24-10-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: The eventual accomplishment would be John Giorgis cleaning up his act and starting to behave like a civilised adult. Whatever it was that John did (long forgotten by almost everyone by now) That would mean that I am one of very few people

Re: test

2002-10-25 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:23 24-10-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: We're testing manual dinging. Would you mind using someone else's posts for that, please? Thank you. My how bossy you are! Nah. If I were bossy, I would have *told* him, rather than *ask* him, to use someone else's posts for it. Jeroen

Re: Question for everyone

2002-10-25 Thread Ray Ludenia
J. van Baardwijk wrote: That would mean that I am one of very few people on this list who have a *functioning* short-term memory... after I had forgotten to remove the word Brin from the subject header of one of my posts). ;-) ___

Re: br!n: war

2002-10-25 Thread Erik Reuter
Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. ___

Re: br!n: war

2002-10-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. Actually, JDG has put brin in the subject line only once since

Re: br!n: war

2002-10-25 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:56:07AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Actually, JDG has put brin in the subject line only once since Dr. Brin last made the request to remove it, and he re-posted soon after Actually, twice from the first time DB asked it to be removed (DB asked more than once, the

Re: br!n: war

2002-10-25 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/25/2002 9:31:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: Re: br!n: war Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him

RE: br!n: war

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
Erik Reuter wrote: Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. Sorry about that, I didn't check: my bad. Jean-Louis

Re: Hallowe'en

2002-10-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: I'm going to a Hallowe'en party this weekend. My potential costumes include Harry Potter's Hagrid, a bearded lady or just a plain old mummy. Anybody else getting dressed up in the next few days? Well, if Sammy will tolerate being put in a Tigger outfit (no

RE: Hallowe'en

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
De : Julia Thompson [mailto:julia;zurg.net] Can you do some sort of sideways trap-door for your hand to go out? You could grab the glass that way, and then drink inside the stack. That could be an idea. I was thinking to have an arms torus made out of stuffed cloth which would mean that my

RE: Italian author slams Islam's 'hate' for West

2002-10-25 Thread Joe Hale
I would like to believe it's just a few fanatics who give Islam a bad reputation. However the roaring silence of the so called majority speaks volumes about where their sympathy lies. Also the Moslem Fundamentalists are not misinterpreting the Koran. They are not stupid. They know how to read.