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Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary

Date 2014-01-12 15:38 -0600
Subject Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary
From George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.hardware, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Message-ID <CEF8677B.A660D%ghost_topper@hotmail.com> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <2014011208071963901-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <120120141803469650%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2014011210252517719-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <130120140902169951%YourName@YourISP.com> <2014011212242540582-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>

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On 1/12/14 2:24 PM, in article
2014011212242540582-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, "Savageduck"
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

> On 2014-01-12 20:02:16 +0000, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> said:
> 
>> In article <2014011210252517719-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014-01-12 18:03:46 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> said:
>>>> In article <2014011208071963901-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>>>> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-01-12 09:19:22 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
>>>>> said:
>>>>>> In article
>>>>>> <jimjaeger-1DF813.16385911012014@news.eternal-september.org>, Jim
>>>>>> Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <las31b$sho$1@dont-email.me>, Kir?°ly
>>>>>>> <me@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This will make you feel *really* old. Remember the original Star
>>>>>>>> Wars movie? Its release date was closer in time to the attack on
>>>>>>>> Pearl Harbor than to today.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My birthdate is closer to the Civil War than to today.
>>>>>>> You kids get off my lawn.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Civil War was in the 1640s. Are you at least 180 years old?
>>>>> 
>>>>> When us folks in North America talk of the Civil War we think in terms
>>>>> of 1861-65, The Union & The Confederacy, U.S. Grant & R. E. Lee, not
>>>>> Parliamentarians & Royalists, Cromwell & Charles I.
>>>>> So for a WWII veteran of say 90-95 years of age, his birthdate could
>>>>> well be some 30 years closer to the U.S. Civil War than today.
>>>> 
>>>> Us folks are not in North America.
>>> 
>>> Yup!
>>> We are a tad insular when we read "Civil War", thinking only of ours.
>>> That seems to be a trait shared with the English who seem to know of no
>>> other "Civil War", but theirs.
>> 
>> Americans are "a tad insular" in pretty much everything.  :-\
> 
> ...and Australians aren't?
> 

The Land of Tall Tales, mate!

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Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-10 09:13 +1300
  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-11 18:37 +0000
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 10:16 +1300
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-11 21:47 +0000
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-11 14:11 -0800
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-11 22:01 +0000
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-11 17:24 -0700
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> - 2014-01-11 16:38 -0800
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 09:19 +0000
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 08:07 -0800
            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 18:03 +0000
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:25 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 18:33 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:46 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 12:53 -0700
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:42 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:36 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 11:09 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-15 10:39 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-16 07:11 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:34 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:33 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 10:59 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-12 23:37 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-13 09:42 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 20:54 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 09:02 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 12:24 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-12 15:38 -0600
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-12 21:59 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 09:02 +1100
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 13:14 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 16:44 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 17:08 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-12 23:31 -0500
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 18:55 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 09:16 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-13 18:14 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-13 18:37 -0500
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 13:13 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-13 16:26 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 13:49 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-12 22:15 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:39 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 13:28 +1300
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:31 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 23:33 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 18:15 -0700
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 17:19 -0800
            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:25 +1100
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 09:18 -0700
            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-12 11:25 -0600
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:40 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 23:26 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 16:28 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 18:14 -0700
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 17:29 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@mail.com> - 2014-01-16 17:51 -0500
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-16 23:11 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-01-24 22:33 -0600
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 17:13 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 20:52 -0800
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 18:57 +1300
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-11 19:50 -0500
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-11 18:02 -0700
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 15:52 +1300
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-11 20:56 -0600
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-11 20:55 -0600
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 17:49 +1300

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