On 19 Feb 2004, at 02:26, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Re free gift. As I do a fair amount of cooking (from scratch), my
own barf factor gets triggered by fresh frozen (in the fish dept)
:) I get -- regularly -- upset by the express lanes at the
check-outs (15 items or *less*), but I concede
On Feb 19, 2004, at 13:54, Jean Nathan wrote:
This afternoon I bought the book Eats shoots and leaves - The Zero
Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, which is Number 3
on at
least the local non-fiction bestsellers list.
Thanks for the funny.
Punctuation rules are something I've
At 07:05 PM 2/17/04 -0500, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
On Feb 17, 2004, at 16:45, W N Lafferty wrote:
hp ll yr chks trn nt ms nd kck yr dnny dwn.
In the meantime:
m flt t lk lzrd drnkng.
David in Ballarat
No problem David, but I wont post the answers - see if someone
overseas comes up with the
How many *native English speakers* from other
countries (UK, OZ, Canada) also recognised and interpreted correctly
the same truncated version?
Fr scr nd svn yrs g r frfthrs brght frth t ths ntn...
well this one from Scotland still doesn't
jenny barron
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On 15 Feb 2004, at 05:08, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Not to a foreigner, it isn't :) In fact, perhaps the meaning is not so
apparent even to an English speaker but one from outside of the
*US*...
Fr scr nd svn yrs g r frfthrs brght frth t ths ntn...
I had to think about some of it - (not being
One would hope that all the American lacers would get it, I think all my
American connections help, otherwise I wouldn't have a clue. And with
Noelene's hint, I even figured out hers. Does this mean my brain is
improving or I just have too much time on my hands.
Lynn Scott, Wollongong,
On Feb 14, 2004, at 8:36, Clay Blackwell wrote:
The following was on a puzzle calendar and I recognized it
immediately... So if the letters are in the right order, even if the
vowels are missing, the meaning seems to be
apparent.
Not to a foreigner, it isn't :) In fact, perhaps the meaning is
