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If you're that paranoid about being picked on just because the Americans are the most frequent abusers of the English language, well, then, go and be a petulant little bitch somewhere else. And by the way... I can't remember a single fucking thing that came from England or the UK that was worth remembering other than a tyrannical king and a bunch of drunks. English. The world wide web was invented by a Brit. [Bill Dare] |
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Television. The inventor of the telephone was a Brit. The jet engine. Penicillin. Radar. The umbrella. Scuba gear. |
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[Bill Dare] I thought Al Gore invented the WWW. |
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English. The world wide web was invented by a Brit. Television. The inventor of the telephone was a Brit. The jet engine. Penicillin. Radar. The umbrella. Scuba gear. Submarines. Periscopes. Do I need to go on? Hey - you forgot my favourites - the light bulb (Swan invented it a year before Edison...), and the Computer (Babbage or Turing depending on whether you mean a glorified calculator or a fully blown computer).. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list (AT) iiug (DOT) org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list |
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Monty Python Faulty Towers --- Mike Aubury <mike.aubury (AT) aubit (DOT) com> wrote: English. The world wide web was invented by a Brit. Television. The inventor of the telephone was a Brit. The jet engine. Penicillin. Radar. The umbrella. Scuba gear. Submarines. Periscopes. Do I need to go on? Hey - you forgot my favourites - the light bulb (Swan invented it a year before Edison...), and the Computer (Babbage or Turing depending on whether you mean a glorified calculator or a fully blown computer).. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list (AT) iiug (DOT) org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list (AT) iiug (DOT) org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list |
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Did kinda put me in mind of the 'What have the Romans ever done for us' bit from "The Life Of Brian" :-) |
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Obnoxio The Clown wrote: Bill Dare said: [Bill Dare] I thought Al Gore invented the WWW. Typical American revisionism! )Uh huh. I guess the brits just don't get SARCASM. :-P But hey, what do I know? I come from a country that can split atoms, create silicon, and even put a man on the moon and create all of the related technologies. |
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Obnoxio The Clown wrote: Bill Dare said: [Bill Dare] I thought Al Gore invented the WWW. Typical American revisionism! )Uh huh. I guess the brits just don't get SARCASM. :-P |
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