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Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> posted:

> On 03/07/2026 09:03, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 17:37:15 -0000 (UTC)
> > richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
> > 
> >> In article <1125pea$2k3ph$2@dont-email.me>,
> >> Phil  <phil@anonymous.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "My wife's gone to Indonesia"
> >>> "Jakarta?"
> >>> "No, she went by plane"
> >>
> >> Excellent.
> >>
> >> -- Richard
> > 
> > 
> > goes back to the 1960's at least, as a response to the earlier
> > 
> > My wife's gone to the West Indies
> > Jamaica?
> > 
> > I heard it as
> > 
> > My wife's gone to the East Indies
> > Djakarta?
> > 
> > Angus Prune Show?
> > 
> 
> Oh, I suspect those are both older than ISIRTA (along with "My dog's got 
> no nose").
> 
> I'm indebted to a poster on Bluesky for one I hadn't heard before:
> 
> "My wife's gone to Chisinau"
> "Moldova?"
> "No, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing"
> 
A sad (not joking) comment on Chisinau. In about 1998 the annual conference 
of the Romanian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was in Bucharest.
Among the participants was a researcher from Chisinau. For him Bucharest was the
last word in modernity and wealth.
> 


-- 
athel

Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada 

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todays wordle: bused Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-07-01 15:22 +0530
  Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-01 11:03 +0100
  Re: todays wordle: bused occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-01 12:12 +0200
    Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-01 19:24 +0100
      Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-01 19:08 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:35 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 16:23 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-07-02 17:37 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 09:03 +0100
              Re: todays wordle: bused Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> - 2026-07-03 09:43 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-03 13:11 +0000
                Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-03 17:19 +0000
              Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 10:53 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-07-03 19:54 +0100
                Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-03 21:05 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-07-02 13:40 +0000
      Re: todays wordle: bused athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 14:43 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:02 +0100
          Re: todays wordle: bused Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-02 19:23 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-07-02 19:38 +0100
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-03 08:58 +1000
    Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 10:07 +1000
      Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 02:30 +0000
        Re: todays wordle: bused Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2026-07-02 23:08 +1200
      Re: todays wordle: bused Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-07-01 23:41 -0400
        Re: todays wordle: bused Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-02 22:53 +1000
          Re: todays wordle: bused wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-07-02 17:35 +0000
            Re: todays wordle: bused Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-07-03 22:14 -0400
      Re: todays wordle: bused Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-07-02 12:08 +0100

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