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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:13:26 -0500, Sherry Shaw <ten### [at] aol com>
wrote:
>
>I don't currently know any doctors. I can't afford to know any doctors.
When my wife was a student she shared an apartment with five other
girls, four of them graduated as doctors. One of them was so rich that
she did not know how to make tea. She once put sprouts in the kettle
at the same time thinking she was taking a short cut. The stories
about Trudy are legend :)
> I did spend a number of years doing people's taxes.
How the other half (1%) live. :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:57:44 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> I had not heard "Zeeuws Vlaanderen" before but now know where you
>>> mean.
>> Interesting it *is* the name of the area you are in.
>
> So it is :) but everyone speaks English to me and Babel fish
> translates it to Zeeuws Flanders. I did find a Dutch dictionary that
> told me it was Zeeland. I think I need a history lesson :)
Zee means sea and the name Zeeland is the origin of the later discovered
new version of it. You know, that island on the other side of the
worldwith lots of birds and no original mammals other than a bat.
Zeeuws is sort of the possessive of zee, in the context of Zeeland, like
e.g. scottish is for Scotland. It should normally have been Zee's but I
guess they added the 'w' sound to make it more pronounceable (for the
Dutch that is). Of the history of it I know little, so I can't help you
there.
> BTW I am working from home and only go to the Netherlands for face to
> face meetings and to actually work on the system.
> I'll tell you one thing Sluiskil is not an easy place to reach by
> public transport.
>
Yes I can imagine. Probably more easily reached from Belgium than from
the Netherlands.
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:32:13 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:57:44 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
>> wrote:
>> So it is :) but everyone speaks English to me and Babel fish
>> translates it to Zeeuws Flanders. I did find a Dutch dictionary that
>> told me it was Zeeland. I think I need a history lesson :)
>Zee means sea and the name Zeeland is the origin of the later discovered
>new version of it. You know, that island on the other side of the
>worldwith lots of birds and no original mammals other than a bat.
>Zeeuws is sort of the possessive of zee, in the context of Zeeland, like
>e.g. scottish is for Scotland. It should normally have been Zee's but I
>guess they added the 'w' sound to make it more pronounceable (for the
>Dutch that is). Of the history of it I know little, so I can't help you
>there.
Thank you kind sir. :)
FWIW [not directed at you] and since you mention it there is another
possessive for Scotland and that is "Scotch" which is only applied to
inanimate objects such as Scotch Whisky or Scotch broth etc. I wish
someone would tell the English this :)
>> BTW I am working from home and only go to the Netherlands for face to
>> face meetings and to actually work on the system.
>> I'll tell you one thing Sluiskil is not an easy place to reach by
>> public transport.
>>
>Yes I can imagine. Probably more easily reached from Belgium than from
>the Netherlands.
That is what I do. I get the Eurostar to Brussels then to Gent from
there a taxi. 21st Century?
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
>> Yes I can imagine. Probably more easily reached from Belgium than from
>> the Netherlands.
> That is what I do. I get the Eurostar to Brussels then to Gent from
> there a taxi. 21st Century?
I checked it. It should take 4 hours 15 minutes from my home town (e.g.
3:45 from schiphol).
All public transport, a lot of changes, most 5-10 minutes wait in
between. The problem is, I guess, that although the netherlands do have
a good public transport system, Sluiskil is not in the netherlands as
such, nor is it in belgium (I think we have no Zeeuwen in this group, so
that is probably save to say here).
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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:22:22 +0100, Chambers
> <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:
>
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> Then in economic terms you're a plug stopping the flow of money, how
>>> selfish of you :-P
>>
>> Fine by me; I'll plug up the economy, let everyone else go bankrupt,
>> and then buy all their stock with my hardearned savings :)
>
> Congratulations you are now the proud owner of worthless stock, have
> lost all your money, and now have to get a loan and go into debt;
> [sniff] what a fine upstanding citizen you've become.
>
Au contraire, I am now the sole proprietor of several profitable
businesses, ones which are suffering more due to public perception of
wealth than due to any inherent problems in their business plans.
I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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And lo on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:06:21 +0100, Chambers
<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:22:22 +0100, Chambers
>> <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>>> Then in economic terms you're a plug stopping the flow of money, how
>>>> selfish of you :-P
>>>
>>> Fine by me; I'll plug up the economy, let everyone else go bankrupt,
>>> and then buy all their stock with my hardearned savings :)
>> Congratulations you are now the proud owner of worthless stock, have
>> lost all your money, and now have to get a loan and go into debt;
>> [sniff] what a fine upstanding citizen you've become.
>
> Au contraire, I am now the sole proprietor of several profitable
> businesses, ones which are suffering more due to public perception of
> wealth than due to any inherent problems in their business plans.
Like Northern Rock and Bear Stearns ;-)
> I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
Pah the financial route's for sissys, give me a good old fashioned Death
Ray anytime.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook wrote:
>> I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
>
> Pah the financial route's for sissys, give me a good old fashioned Death
> Ray anytime.
Sure, I've got a spare one lying around here somewhere...
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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And lo on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:01 +0100, Chambers
<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
>> Pah the financial route's for sissys, give me a good old fashioned
>> Death Ray anytime.
>
> Sure, I've got a spare one lying around here somewhere...
Oo how much do you want for it, or do you want to swap for a prototype
time machine (only works one way and at one speed) or a wormhole generator
(Planck size only)?
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Darren New wrote:
> http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6
>> It's on a web page produced by a political action organization.
>
> It's on a web page produced by "political action organization"??
>
> It's on a web page produced by THE F'ING CONGRESS OF THE USA!
>
From the NTU site to which you linked:
"Since it was founded over 35 years ago, the National Taxpayers Union's
Number One job has been helping to protect every single American's right
to keep what they've earned....We are a nonprofit, non-partisan citizen
group whose members work every day for lower taxes and smaller
government at all levels."
"Since its founding in 1977, NTUF has actively engaged in the policy
formation process at the academic, judicial, and political levels."
--Sherry Shaw
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Darren New wrote:
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> I.e., not that you're "ignoring them" as unworthy, but that you're
> "ignoring them" when counting the percentage of people who make lots of
> money. You obviously interact more with people who make lots of money -
> that's how they make it.
>
Rich people don't associate with the likes of me. I don't mind a bit.
> Me, I think I know very few people who make >$250K who don't have
> millions and millions of dollars. (I know a fair number of people who
> have millions and millions of dollars, tho.)
>
Whoa, how could anyone ever have guessed that?
--Sherry Shaw
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