I saw that footage of the flood in Boscastle on tv here in Denver - and
I remember visiting there in 1992. Pretty village. Hope everyone is
safe there.
Here in Denver, we've had about a 100 year storm go through town.
Flooding although Denver in street intersections and I-25 was almost
closed at
From: T.H.
A nurse walks into a bank, preparing to endorse a check. She reaches in
her pocket, pulls out a rectal thermometer, and tries to write with it.
She looks at the thermometer, pauses for a moment, then realizing her
mistake, mutters, "Well that's just great . . . . Some asshole's got my
On Aug 18, 2004, at 19:54, Martha Krieg wrote:
There's the thou/thee/thy/thine set and the you/ye/your/yours set .
Originally singular versus plural, then familiar versus formal. When
egalitarianism came in, the Quakers went with thee for both singular
and plural (and both nominative and acc
There's the thou/thee/thy/thine set and the you/ye/your/yours set .
Originally singular versus plural, then familiar versus formal. When
egalitarianism came in, the Quakers went with thee for both
singular and plural (and both nominative and accusative case); the
rest of us went with you.
I wasn't on Arachne then, but the only old English word for "you" I can come up
with is "thou". I'm not a native English speaker though, so maybe there's
another one.
Weronika
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Tatdlace wrote:
> Hello all,
> Some time ago, years maybe, there was a discuss
Hello all,
Some time ago, years maybe, there was a discussion of
language and I remember, or at least I think I remember
someone mentioning that English has another very old
and not used expression or word for "you". I remember
thinking at the time that I should remember the word
but it was odd an
Hi All, The flooding in (excuse my phonetic spelling) Buscastle,
near Guilford, in Cornwall made the news here. I hope no lace
makers had their pillows or shuttles swept out to sea! I couldn't
believe how many cars were floating through the middle of town.
I suppose there are places on earth ge
although it's nice to see, i thought it was strange that there is so
many books out this year about her. there is also one in the
business
section that is said to be used for lectures. i saw the one written
about queen elizabeth and queen mary, but i am looking specificallly
for the older o
A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost.
He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and
shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him
an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The woman below replied, "You are in a hot air b
Hi everyone and Jane who wrote:
> Actually there
is quite a bit of eye candy .
Isn't that what the Olympics are all about ? :-^
--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)
who heard that in womens' waterpolo one of the accepted strategies is to
try to pull off the swimsuit of someone
Similarly, I did not hear Ruth Budge say the things that it sounds as though
someone has said she said. I think I was paying as close attention as
anyone, since I was quite enthusiastic about having the opportunity to meet Liz
Barlett, having traveled through England using her Lace Villages a
I remember the discussion fairly well and support Ruth in her assertions.
She was asked to complete a teaching application form "just in case" and she
felt it was too much hassle for "just in case". We then had long discussions
about how Guilds selected and vetted their visiting tutors in orde
Parts of England got too much of a strange nise a couple of days ago.
Boscastle, a village in Cornwall which is the most westerly/southerly county
of England ( the bit that sticks out bottom left of the British Isles)
suffered a flash flood when two rivers that meet got overfull and swept a
torrent
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