[lace-chat] thank you SP

2004-04-11 Thread alessandra
DEAR MARGOT, FINALLY I KOW WHO YOU ARE WHAT NICE IS THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE! THANK YOU FOR THE NICE GIFTS I AM VERY HAPPY TO HAVE A NEW FRIEND FROM CANADA HAVE A NICE TIME IN PRAGUE, I WOULD LIKE TO COME, BUT I AM PLANNING MY HOLIDAY TO OZ THIS YEAR, SO I THIMK I WILL GO NEXT

[lace-chat] :-) One to amuse Tamara

2004-04-11 Thread Jean Nathan
Two boys in Boston were playing basketball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck. A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald happened

Re: [lace-chat] How strange

2004-04-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 10 Apr 2004, at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bit in brackets I had put in as a pound sign and figures but it disappeared in transit. That's because the pound sign is in the upper ASCII set. Each ASCII number represents one character. The lower set (0-127) are standard across all

Re: [lace-chat] How strange

2004-04-11 Thread Steph Peters
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:31:59 +0100, Brenda wrote: On 10 Apr 2004, at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bit in brackets I had put in as a pound sign and figures but it disappeared in transit. That's because the pound sign is in the upper ASCII set. Each ASCII number represents one

[lace-chat] Eats, Shoots, Leaves

2004-04-11 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, There is a little article in Newsweek magazine this week that Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss will be released in the US this month! I will be buying a copy! For those of you who weren't on lace chat a couple months ago it's a book about punctuation. The title is part of a

[lace-chat] Unconditional Love on DVD

2004-04-11 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, My last message of the day. I rented Unconditional Love this weekend. It stars Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett and lots of other stars (and cameos). I was a bit put off by the very beginning but ended up being charmed by the movie. It doesn't quite gel, it seems to want to be a few

[lace-chat] Language usage -- again

2004-04-11 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
Gentle Spiders, Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory, there's a half-buried idea that each other and one another are *not* the same thing, and are used differently. I seem to remember being taught that one's used when the interraction is limited to two only, and the other's used when

[lace-chat] RE: Motive in Tull book

2004-04-11 Thread Ian Chelle Long
Gidday Peter, Liz and all, Peter, you Must have misread the message, or they have made a bad 'Typo'!! The book is really only a booklet, with soft cover. There are 50 pages - which are A4 size folded in half. - so 25 pages of A4. It weighs about Liz is correct, and you can get it without

[lace-chat] Tamara's question

2004-04-11 Thread Clive and Betty Ann Rice
Dear T and other Spiders of inquiring minds Growing up as a real Southern hillbilly, accent and all, we used each other to mean two people interacting. Example: They got each other a birthday present. More often, we would use one another in the same text. So...my take on the question -