Tom spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> right! just to avoid confusion, it's me, i'm back, and i've got a
It just wouldn't be the same otherwise.
> my email imploded for the last time shortly after i asked about my own
I regret that I will have to plead the 5th, Senator. Ah.... I'm Canadian....
can't do that eh? Shucks. Well then the obvious answer is everything you
missed was fantastic.... aren't you sorry you missed it?
> i love you all,
Wow.
> tom
I was thinking, I'm sure someone could afford to send you a keyoard from the
Americas. They have this newfangled invention there called the Shift Key. Also
another knows as CapsLock, but it is verboten. But the Shift Key has become
very popular. You may wish to try it out sometime on a friends computer....
(Okay, I'll stop and go away now).
> Tom spake thusly upon matters weighty:
[snip]
> ps and still no capitals!
Guess you've got a spare one with the "b" missing, eh Tom....??
Heh.
> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
well, given that you've only had a constitution since 1984, you haven't had
time to add amendments. just be thankful you're not living in
post-Omagh uk - not saying anything can land you in the clink. various
monastic orders are taking a right battering...
Tom
Thomas spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> > I regret that I will have to plead the 5th, Senator. Ah.... I'm
Yikes. As to our Constitution (which our Supreme Court occaisionally flouts
with the basic premise Because We Don't Like It), we've made it (like the US
Constitution, only moreso) really hard to amend. Impossible almost. Which
wouldn't be bad if the document itself were as well written. The US
Constitution's framers were about the best you could hope for in a Committee.
The Canadian Constitution and associated Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which
I'm told contradicts it in several areas) were both written by vast committee.
Thus they have all the blandness and baggage that comes with that. I may not
like everything about USA, but they have a great Constitution and a good idea
of what a Senate should be (Elected!).
YMMV. I'm going to stop this thread now before I get the ListAdminGod(tm) on
me for wandering too far afield.....
Tom.
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Ground spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> >Tom spake thusly upon matters weighty:
^$^#%$@!!!!!&*^in smart-arse in every crowd.....
Like in Dilbert, we've made a whole bunch of keyboards missing a letter. We
need someplace to ship them. We figure anyplace that can live without caps can
survive without a letter B. We figured we'd just find some rich English who'd
been out in the midday sun too
long... (grin)
.... or it could have been a typo.......
Tom.
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> Thomas Anderson wrote:
> > I regret that I will have to plead the 5th, Senator. Ah.... I'm
I remember reading a magazine article about Canadians, especially young ones
who grew up on American TV attempting to "Plead the 5th". Apparently this is
one of the easiest and fastest ways to piss off a Canadian cop.:)