Re: INSTANT REVIEW: Next Year's TV Shows
Otto Bahn
>> > No cluons were harmed when nemo wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hieroglyphics should have a capital BTW. I think it's Cairo.
>> >
>> > The capital of hieroglyphics is Windows XP (xi rho)?
>>
>> Nah, that's Greek (as opposed to geek); hieroglyphics are Egyptian.
>> I dunno what Egypsies call their capital.
>
> Cairo.
No, silly, that's what English speaking folks call it.
BTW, which bozo decided "usage" was farther up the hierarchy
than "english"?
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CDB
We offer a choice. Good pun, by the way, even with the backstory
snipped. Hope it was a Kibologist's, 'cause I'm cutting out all the
other groups.
Otto Bahn
>>>> > >Hieroglyphics should have a capital BTW. I think it's Cairo.
>>>> >
>>>> > The capital of hieroglyphics is Windows XP (xi rho)?
>>>>
>>>> Nah, that's Greek (as opposed to geek); hieroglyphics are Egyptian.
>>>> I dunno what Egypsies call their capital.
>>>
>>> Cairo.
>>
>>No, silly, that's what English speaking folks call it.
>>
>>BTW, which bozo decided "usage" was farther up the hierarchy
>>than "english"?
>>
> Some PC'er from Ucky Davis in CAFAland.
I blame Al Gore.
> Egypt => Hout ka-Ptah
> Cairo => Al-Qahirah
How did the Bible get it so wrong?!
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R H Draney
>> Cairo => Al-Qahirah
>
>How did the Bible get it so wrong?!
When they issued a blanket condemnation of witches, they alienated the
spell-checkers....r
(imaginary group alt.tim.browning.nose trimmed)
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An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
Adam Funk
>> Egypt => Hout ka-Ptah
>> Cairo => Al-Qahirah
>
> How did the Bible get it so wrong?!
I blame the Hittites.
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Civilization is a race between catastrophe and education.
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