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From: BrianW on 18 Aug 2006 18:11 Alex Heney wrote: > 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). Ah the AltGr key. My Microsoft (UK) keyboard has one. áéíóú. :-) -- Brian
From: Alex Heney on 18 Aug 2006 19:01 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:50:58 +0100, Tony Raven <junk(a)raven-family.com> wrote: >Alex Heney wrote on 18/08/2006 21:40 +0100: >> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:58:04 GMT, JAF <anarchSPAMKILLER(a)ntlworld.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:07:41 +0100, Paul {Hamilton Rooney} <craig(a)oil.com> >>> 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. True. But give it time :-) -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to continue... To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Alex Heney on 18 Aug 2006 19:01 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:08:51 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Alex Heney wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:01:50 +0100, "Brimstone" >> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ivor Jones wrote: >>>> "Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:Xns982397087BE39adrianachapmanfreeis(a)204.153.244.170 >>>>> Paul {Hamilton Rooney} (craig(a)oil.com) gurgled happily, >>>>> sounding much like they were saying : >>>>> >>>>>>>> Resist winding a fuckwit up? It is hard, but then >>>>>>>> you Europeans get so upset about swearing... >>>>> >>>>>>> Who said I'm a European..? >>>>> >>>>>> Wales is in Europe, innit. With a name like Ivor you >>>>>> must be Welsh or Russian. >>>>> >>>>> Are many Russians called "Jones"? >>>>> >>>>> B'sides - every group on the x-post list is >>>>> UK.<something>, so there's a reasonable implication that >>>>> we're all European residents at the very least. >>>> >>>> I'm a UK resident not a European resident. There is no such country >>>> as Europe. >>> >>> 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. > Ivor will not accept that :-) -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Let's split up, we can do more damage that way. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Alex Heney on 18 Aug 2006 19:02 On 18 Aug 2006 21:45:54 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >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? A state. A Kingdom. Probably various other things too. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Let's split up, we can do more damage that way. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Mark McNeill on 18 Aug 2006 19:07
Response to Simon Finnigan: > Incidentally, i`m still hoping that someone will turn up a study on the > impact of a hands free kit on driving ability. Google and ye shall find, e.g.: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/1112cellphones.html http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1 "The study found that compared with undistracted drivers: Motorists who talked on either handheld or hands-free cell phones drove slightly slower, were 9 percent slower to hit the brakes, displayed 24 percent more variation in following distance as their attention switched between driving and conversing, were 19 percent slower to resume normal speed after braking and were more likely to crash. Three study participants rear-ended the pace car. All were talking on cell phones. The pdf for the latter is at http://www.hfes.org/Web/PubPages/celldrunk.pdf -- Mark, UK "Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse." |