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RE: (Re: Look before posting) (Re: Think before replying)


On a hot Thursday, the 24th day of August, 2006, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> On 24 August 2006 20:14, One Angry User wrote:
>
> > On a hot Thursday, the 24th day of August, 2006, Dave Korn's computer
> > deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> >
> >> On 24 August 2006 14:00, George wrote:
> >>
> >>> Off the top of my head the only other countries I can think of are
> >>> Singapore and Malaysia, Burma, Cyprus, Jamaica, The Countries Formerly
> >>> Known as Rhodesia, and Nigeria.  Kenya, I think gained independence
> >>> after 1947.  Britain also gave up rule of Palestine around that time
> >>> after the locals started blowing up their buildings.
> >>
> >> http://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/20century.htm

Oh, and just noticed -- the British empire has its own web site?
Progressive, aren't they? :-)

Reminds me of "the sun never set over the British Empire, because the sun
sets in the West and the British Empire was in the East"...

> >> 1962: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, ... and Western Samoa
> >> 1964: ... Malta
> >> 1970: Fiji and Tonga
> >> 1973: Bahamas
> >> 1976: Seychelles
> >> 1978: Dominica
> >> 1979: Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
> >
> > Are there really hippos in those countries?
>
>   Clealy, sir, hace mjade an off-topic poast :)

What dialect is that?

> >> 1997: Hong Kong
> >
> > There is probably one in the Hong Kong zoo...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/harlw

Like I said, "zoo".

>   *sip* <g>

Did you just make up a rule?  Or is it "any excuse for a sip"? :-)

OAU


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