Re: computer bootlaces

From	Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, comp.std.misc
Subject	Re: computer bootlaces
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Date	2011-09-30 12:24 +0100

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>>> I do wonder, however, how inefficient it is that the US Embassy in
>>> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
>>> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
>>
>> Do you know that this actually happens?
>
> The Embassy prints all outgoing correspondence on US letter paper, but
> I don't know where they get it from.  [...]

Where did you ascertain this from?  I can quite believe that an embassy 
would have nutty procurement regulations that would mean that none of 
the staff can just pop down the street to the local stationery shop when 
the laser jet printer runs out of paper.  That's not why I'm asking. 
I'm interested in confirming that this isn't one of those factoids that 
"everyone knows", and that everyone passes along to other people as a 
quite interesting tidbit, but that isn't actually now true.  What's your 
source?

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Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-29 11:20 +0100
  Re: computer bootlaces Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2011-09-29 17:59 +0100
    Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-30 12:24 +0100

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