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From: Alex Heney on 18 Aug 2006 17:31 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:33:11 +0100, "Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote: >"Alex Heney" <me8(a)privacy.net> wrote in message >news:7j4ae2dvffmv0t2dmd7v82bcq5es5ijhda(a)4ax.com > >[snip] > >> No, but I don't think anybody has ported Outlook Express >> (which is what Ivor uses) to another platform. > >You forget that not everyone uses a UK keyboard. This US one doesn't have >an AltGr key. > I think you replied to the wrong post here. I never mentioned the AltGr key (although I thought it was actually more common on US keyboards than on UK ones - and you will *may* find that the right hand Alt key actually works as AltGr, whatever the label on it says). -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Double your drive space - delete Windows! To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Tony Raven on 18 Aug 2006 17:37 PC Paul wrote on 18/08/2006 22:08 +0100: > Tony Raven wrote: >>>> >>>>> It meant a fixed thing or place. >>>> Post (stick in the ground) and post (mail) have different origins. >>> And "undertake" (to take upon oneself), "undertake" (to carry out >>> funerals) and "undertake" (to pass on the "wrong" side) all have >>> different origins. >> But only the first two are recognised by the OED. > > If you want something with a *lot* of meanings, look at 'set' > > <nerd> OED recognises 11 different meanings for the verb undertake, just none of them are to do with passing on the inside. Set has 157 meanings as a verb. </nerd> -- Tony "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci
From: Adrian on 18 Aug 2006 17:45 Brimstone (brimstone(a)hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying : >>> Where's this country called "UK"? >> There is a "State" called the United Kingdom (UK for short) :-) > Quite true, but it's not a country. So what IS it?
From: Richard Brookman on 18 Aug 2006 17:46 Alex Heney wrote: || The tailgater should not have tailgated - but he shouldn't have || *needed* to. Point of order - nobody "needs" to tailgate anyone. Staying a few vehicle lengths behind and flashing his lights (as you point out below) would have been safe and legal. It might not have got the OP out of the way, but you can't have everything. || The flashing of lights was reasonable, since rule 90 of the highway || code says "only flash your headlights to let other road users know || that you are there.", and obviously DieSea cannot have been aware, or || he would have moved over :-) -- Rich ============================== I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.
From: Adrian on 18 Aug 2006 17:47
Richard Brookman (richard.brookmanpants(a)btinternet.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying : >|| The tailgater should not have tailgated - but he shouldn't have >|| *needed* to. > Point of order - nobody "needs" to tailgate anyone. Staying a few > vehicle lengths behind and flashing his lights (as you point out > below) would have been safe and legal. And pointless. |