[silk] Dr. Ow, I presume?

2012-06-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Congrats, Cory. May I suggest your next story be titled Catch-23? https://twitter.com/doctorow/statuses/210978351379251202 I'm off to Milton Keynes to receive an honourary doctorate in Computer Science from Open University! Doctor Doctorow, here I come! ‪#squee‬! -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On 07-Jun-12 11:55 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing. Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Mahesh Murthy
Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Probably a variant/form of the word for poison I'd expect Bih comes from Bihu.

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:17:43AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On 07-Jun-12 11:55 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing. Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
On শুক্রবার 08 জুন 2012 01:33 অপরাহ্ণ, Mahesh Murthy wrote: Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Probably a variant/form of the word for poison I'd

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread ss
On Friday 08 Jun 2012 2:19:14 pm Runa Bhattacharjee wrote: Bih written as 'বিহ' is the word for poison in Assamese Oh it's the same as vish/visha (Kannada) meaning poison shiv

Re: [silk] Dr. Ow, I presume?

2012-06-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
CongratulationsMilton Keyboardnes? On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Congrats, Cory. May I suggest your next story be titled Catch-23? https://twitter.com/doctorow/statuses/210978351379251202 I'm off to Milton Keynes to receive an honourary

[silk] Good God!

2012-06-08 Thread Bharath Chari
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the

Re: [silk] Good God!

2012-06-08 Thread John Sundman
On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Bharath Chari wrote: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000