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Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary

From Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.hardware, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Message-ID <2014011210461360879-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <120120140919221781%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2014011208071963901-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <120120141803469650%timstreater@greenbee.net> <2014011210252517719-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <120120141833024989%timstreater@greenbee.net>
Subject Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary
Organization http://www.panic.com/unison/
Date 2014-01-12 10:46 -0800

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On 2014-01-12 18:33:02 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> 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>, Király <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.
> 
> I'm well aware that the Americans managed to have a Civil War rather
> after ours, but if I see a post that just refers to "the Civil War" my
> default interpretation is going to be that it refers to the English
> one. I'm surprised there aren't posts from people in other countries
> saying that there's never been a Civil War.
> 
> If you wish to do something other than refer to Civil Wars in general,
> you'll need to make your reference more specific.

I think we have the Biafran/Nigerian and Angolan Civil Wars covered by 
our recent events calendar.

-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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  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
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