Hi there!
On 21 Nov 99, at 23:30, tracer wrote
about "Re[2]: (SOT) Moo-ah, Met-ah, Med-ah":
> Alexander> But these are *Russian* bears:-))..... They know! Those
> Alexander> Americans are really funny, they (provided that they know
> Alexander> *what and where* Russia is anyway) still seem to believe it's
> Alexander> common for the wild bears to walk down the streets in Russia:-)
> Alexander> At least I've already seen 3 such guys (all of them Americans)
> Alexander> who were *really* deadly surprised not to find those bears in
> Alexander> the streets......... and a friend of mine now working in the
> Alexander> Silicon valley met 2 other Americans, who seemed to believe
> Alexander> that Russia is located somewhere next to Venezuela:-))
> whats wrong with that?
Nothing in particular:-))) At least, it leaves *me* calm:-)
> They tested students in the past on their chemistry knowledge and
> according to some Sodium Chloride was a green gas....
Well, well..... AFAIK this summer there was a heated
discussion in Oxford whether to teach their math students what
"uniformly continuous function" is or NOT:-))) ROTFLMAO, as
you say:-) This is exactly what *our* students are taught in the
*very* first semester:-))
> But you are missing out on a tourist attraction, train some
> bears and get the tourists to visit them. Obviously wanting
> repeat visits you cannot let those bears eat them (at least
> not all of them....)
Interesting idea, that:-)
> By the way a friend has an internet cafee and yesterday his
> internet browser looked 'odd' he said. Some smart visitor had
> switched him to the Russian character set...
Apparently it was Russian:-) It's somehow a thing *every*
Russian does first of all approaching *any* web browser
anywhere:-)
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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