On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:45:06 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Sun, 25 May 2008 01:40:10 +0100, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> I often have to read it a second time to 'Americanise' the spellings
>> just to avoid having half my audience tell me I can't spell. ;-)
> 
> Shouldn't that be Americanize :-P

I wondered if someone would pick up on that - thing is, it was 
automatic. ;-)

Jim

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On 27 May 2008 11:33:54 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
wrote:


>Well, I know the recent changes in UK immigration state three criteria - 
>money (to invest), age (lower is better - and I'm over the rather 
>arbitrary age threshold), and a college degree.  In the old points 
>system, I was good to go, but they changed all that within the last 
>year.  (My wife follows it fairly closely.)

There is a lot of pressure on the politicians to be seen to be doing
something. Halfwits!

>Possibly coming over while employed by a US company would work (it does 
>here in the US - my last boss was a Canadian immigrant, and my current 
>boss lives in Canada).

That's what gave me the thought.


>Wow, small world, isn't it?  Almost makes me wonder if you know the guy I 
>know there.  That'd be weird.  IIRC, he said the population was fairly 
>low there...

Well I left the area nearly thirty years ago. If he worked at
Burroughs there is a chance.
I was the long haired girlie looking one :)

>>>> Funny enough I am thinking about leaving the country as it is going to
>>>> the dogs in a handcart, if you will pardon the mixed metaphor :)
>>>
>>>LOL, it's all relative. ;-)
>> 
>> True, that is what my auntie said :)
>
><groan>!
>
We aim to please :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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scott wrote:
> 
> Yeh sounds about right - it was a blizzard so you couldn't see very far, 
> but it still didn't stop our taxi driver using the middle lane at 120 
> km/h and swerving back and to when approaching cars were also using the 
> same lane!

Well yes, some taxi-drivers are crazy around here :(. Luckily even them 
pretty well know theier car and how it handles in different weathers.

Sidenote: in blizzard it's hard to see further than the headlights, 
since the snow makes a "lightwall" to where the front bumper is, but 
you'll get used to it and learn to see through the lightwall.

> I guess it depends how much power your car has and whether you are happy 
> to go over the speed while overtaking.

Surely yes. ~250bhp/~350Nm haven't made me to overtake like your taxi 
driver :p.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
       aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 16:46:21 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 27 May 2008 11:33:54 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, I know the recent changes in UK immigration state three criteria -
>>money (to invest), age (lower is better - and I'm over the rather
>>arbitrary age threshold), and a college degree.  In the old points
>>system, I was good to go, but they changed all that within the last
>>year.  (My wife follows it fairly closely.)
> 
> There is a lot of pressure on the politicians to be seen to be doing
> something. Halfwits!

Well, no different than over here, then. ;-)

>>Possibly coming over while employed by a US company would work (it does
>>here in the US - my last boss was a Canadian immigrant, and my current
>>boss lives in Canada).
> 
> That's what gave me the thought.

What, you know my boss? ;-)

>>Wow, small world, isn't it?  Almost makes me wonder if you know the guy
>>I know there.  That'd be weird.  IIRC, he said the population was fairly
>>low there...
> 
> Well I left the area nearly thirty years ago. If he worked at Burroughs
> there is a chance.
> I was the long haired girlie looking one :)

I'm trying to remember if he did or not - does the name Cloughley ring a 
bell?

>>>>> Funny enough I am thinking about leaving the country as it is going
>>>>> to the dogs in a handcart, if you will pardon the mixed metaphor :)
>>>>
>>>>LOL, it's all relative. ;-)
>>> 
>>> True, that is what my auntie said :)
>>
>><groan>!
>>
> We aim to please :)

You need to aim better, then. ;-)

Jim

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:51:31 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

>> Well I left the area nearly thirty years ago. If he worked at Burroughs
>> there is a chance.
>> I was the long haired girlie looking one
> 
> I'm trying to remember if he did or not - does the name Cloughley ring a
> bell?

Then again, you might not have known him - he's only around 40 right 
now.  But maybe his father...

Jim

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scott wrote:
> but it still didn't stop our taxi driver using the middle lane at 120 
> km/h and swerving back and to when approaching cars were also using the 
> same lane!

"See? There's our hotel over there on the left."
    "Then why did the driver just pull into the right-turn-only lane?"
"The line's shorter."
    "Ah, welcome to China."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On 27 May 2008 13:51:31 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
wrote:

>
>What, you know my boss? ;-)

I've never met your wife :-)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On 27 May 2008 13:52:18 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom>
wrote:

>
>Then again, you might not have known him - he's only around 40 right 
>now.  But maybe his father...

He would have been at primary school when I lived there so I guess
not. And I was not the sort of person fathers admitted to knowing, in
those days. In fact my own father did not like to admit to me ;-)
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Regards
     Stephen

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:22:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 27 May 2008 13:52:18 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Then again, you might not have known him - he's only around 40 right
>>now.  But maybe his father...
> 
> He would have been at primary school when I lived there so I guess not.
> And I was not the sort of person fathers admitted to knowing, in those
> days. In fact my own father did not like to admit to me ;-)

LOL, I know what you mean....

Jim

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:19:45 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 27 May 2008 13:51:31 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>What, you know my boss? ;-)
> 
> I've never met your wife :-)

Well, she'd be the first to say that she's not the boss of me. ;-)

Then again, she is sitting in the next room watching episodes of 
Gardners' World from 2007 that I've burned to disc for her.  I think 
she's got 5 DVDs at the moment with that on it.

(And if my boss were out here reading, she'd want to know why I'm doing 
this instead of that mailing I said I'd get done today).

Jim

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