<Ja...@webgopulltheotherone.com.au> wrote: >Jim Goloboy wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:55:32 GMT, ruud <no_em...@hotmail.scum> wrote:
>>>Give him a break. Most universities in the US would award a PhD for >>>that sort of research (cutting & pasting from the CIA world book).
>> You're just telling me that now? WTF have I been doing the last five >> years?????
>Watching the Simpsons
Actually, at this very moment I am watching the Simpsons for the first time in like a year. And it's actually funny!
>and Futurama? Or not enough thereof apparently.
I think I've caught every episode at least twice by now, so it's just a matter of matching appropriate quotes to RSS posts and I'll never have to think of anything original again. And apparently I can get a PhD for this too!!!
Jim Goloboy wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:53:44 +1000, James Allnutt > <Ja...@webgopulltheotherone.com.au> wrote:
>>Jim Goloboy wrote:
>>>On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:55:32 GMT, ruud <no_em...@hotmail.scum> wrote:
>>>>Give him a break. Most universities in the US would award a PhD for >>>>that sort of research (cutting & pasting from the CIA world book).
>>>You're just telling me that now? WTF have I been doing the last five >>>years?????
>>Watching the Simpsons
> Actually, at this very moment I am watching the Simpsons for the first > time in like a year. And it's actually funny!
You doubted?
>>and Futurama? Or not enough thereof apparently.
> I think I've caught every episode at least twice by now, so it's just > a matter of matching appropriate quotes to RSS posts and I'll never > have to think of anything original again.
Works for me.
And apparently I can get a
> PhD for this too!!!
Surely that's true everywhere these days.
Anyhoo, apparently I'm meant to ask you about the Nobel Prize winners you know. R they hot? Do U have pictures?
I believe one of them discovered the letter 'Q'. Is there a monument to this great feat in your toilet block (according to VB that's where you meet them - I'm not really sure what she is trying to say about you).
Richard wrote: > In article > <42acca85$0$2440$5a62a...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, > James Allnutt <Ja...@webgopulltheotherone.com.au> wrote:
>>Watching the Simpsons and Futurama? Or not enough thereof apparently.
> pity he can't watch good, educational aussie tv like the glass house, eh?
> -richard
Just the one with Alanna Burns. That's all you'll ever need.
>I believe one of them discovered the letter 'Q'. Is there a monument to >this great feat in your toilet block (according to VB that's where you >meet them - I'm not really sure what she is trying to say about you).
I really haven't looked for the plaque, when we meet there we are pretty focused on the anal sex.
Richard wrote: > In article > <42acdc0a$0$2470$5a62a...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, > James Allnutt <Ja...@webgopulltheotherone.com.au> wrote:
>>Just the one with Alanna Burns. That's all you'll ever need.
>>"LOCK ALL THE DOORS"
> i thought she was called lauren?...
Yeah, probs - Ronnie Burns' daughter
> are you referring to the olympic gold medalist who had her medal stolen?
It's the end of the world as we know it, and James Allnutt feels... [Jim Goloboy]
> Personally I'd worry if I were you, the "UC" at the end of your > university name looks disturbingly like "University of Canberra", and > that can't be good.
Ahem? ANU student were we?
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mark wrote: > It's the end of the world as we know it, and James Allnutt feels... > [Jim Goloboy]
>>Personally I'd worry if I were you, the "UC" at the end of your >>university name looks disturbingly like "University of Canberra", and >>that can't be good.
> Ahem? ANU student were we?
Was it the lack of drool on the keyboard that gave me away?
> [snip] > >>> And, second, you would be just as likely to bump into someone from > >>> Somalia (capital Mogidishu), Eritrea (capital Asmara), Ethiopia > >>> (capital Addis Ababa), Sudan (capital Khartoum), Cote d'Ivoire > >>> (capital Abidjan), > >>> or of course Djibouti (capital Djibouti).
> >> Today's trivia. Which answer of Dwight's is wrong - or at best > >> incomplete.
> > I could probably have named all of the cities which Nigeria, South > > Africa, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, etc. use as capital cities, but you'd > > just have accused me of showing off.
> lol, nice one, as I was gonna say, for CI, it would be Yammousoukro (sp.). > It's still Abj though. > Dwight, I'm impressed, so keep showing off. Maybe the incomplete one is > Mog[a]dishu
Also the capital of Benin is Porto Novo. Cotonou is the major city and economic center, but not the capital.
I've heard you shouldn't do that - you might catch a virus.
>>I believe one of them discovered the letter 'Q'. Is there a monument to >>this great feat in your toilet block (according to VB that's where you >>meet them - I'm not really sure what she is trying to say about you).
> I really haven't looked for the plaque, when we meet there we are > pretty focused on the anal sex.
>> > Maybe it was the Aus/NZ friendly first up that did it, but I found >> this >> > game Really Bloody Exciting(TM). This was doubly odd because, for the >> > first time in years, I was watching a match in which I had no idea who >> > any of the players were. In fact, I'd never even heard of Benin until >> > the SBS commentators starting talking up the game.
>> > (Never heard of a country? I should probably move to the USA, I'd fit >> > right in there. Oh, the shame!)
>> Probably wouldn't be a good idea to come to Portland, Maine if you >> decide to repatriate.
>> First, because you might bump into the likes of MOI, whose knowledge of >> African geography is clearly superior to yours--the capital of Benin is >> Cotonou, BTW and it lies next door to Togo (capital Lome).
> look who owns an atlas...but benin actually has 2 capitals, porto novo > being the other
Although I do have a number of African maps available to me, I did in fact do the above from memory. My memory, may not be what it used to be, and I probably don't remember every African city that has been suggested or used as some kind of capital city over the past 40 years or so, but I could certainly still name all of the countries of Africa.
In my Washington years, as I was kind of a semi-Africanist(at least I worked among them )I could probably have named all of African heads of states as well.
But, today, I suspect most of the Americans on this newsgroup could do as well as I in any kind of African geography quiz. After all, we have in common in this group that we follow the world's most popular sport and African countries do turn up in the news quite frequently in that sport.
>> And, second, you would be just as likely to bump into someone from >> Somalia (capital Mogidishu), Eritrea (capital Asmara), Ethiopia (capital >> Addis Ababa), Sudan (capital Khartoum), Cote d'Ivoire (capital Abidjan), >> or of course Djibouti (capital Djibouti).
> so there is one somalian, one eritrean, one ethiopian, one sudanese, > one ivory coaster(?) and one djiboutan(?) in portland? very > multicultural city you've got there
No in fact, there are quite large communities of Somali's(probably even more than their more famous brethren up in Lewiston, Maine), Sudanese, Ethiopian, etc. I threw in Cote d'Ivoire because I happened to work with an Ivoirien a couple of years back.
> or when you said he'd be just as likely to run into a person of those > nationalities as he would be to run into you, were you confused?
You'd have to be wearing a blindfold if you walked down Congress Street in downtown Portland without spotting at least one of the afore mentioned African groups.
>> All of which could prove to be even more embarassing to you than coming >> from a country which loses football matches to third-world countries.
> a) didn't lose
If your guys now manage to beat Japan and the Netherlands, and our guys manage to lose to Egypt--have at me.
> b) it was a youth match
IIRC, Richard Nixon was president of the United States, when last I saw an Australian team (nice Norwich Canary style kits, BTW)in that there World Cup thingy.:)
> c) brazil, argentina, south korea, cameroon and south africa are all > 3rd world countries
Cameroon(with it's two capitals) is usually considered a third-world country(economically, etc.), as is, South Africa(with it's THREE capitals). Although, of course, they would not be thought of as such in football terms.
> the original poster made a joke...your post is just stupid
My post too was written at least half in jest.:) But, your responses to my "stupid" post, were highly instructional, informative and enlightening, so together, we have made a small contribution to our little world's better understanding of and knowledge of the African continent. Now, if I could only find that there other "continent" that these Australians keep yakking about. I can't seem to find it on any of my little atlases. What's it near?:)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and James Allnutt feels...
> mark wrote: > > It's the end of the world as we know it, and James Allnutt feels... > > [Jim Goloboy] > >>Personally I'd worry if I were you, the "UC" at the end of your > >>university name looks disturbingly like "University of Canberra", and > >>that can't be good.
> > Ahem? ANU student were we?
> Was it the lack of drool on the keyboard that gave me away?
I'd head over there and thump you, but I slipped in the drool and now I can't get up.
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:14:21 -0400, "Dwight Beers" <dwi...@gwi.net> wrote:
>My post too was written at least half in jest.:)
And anyone not seeing that is taking you too seriously Dwight.
This is always a mistake. :)
>But, your responses to my "stupid" post, were highly instructional, >informative and enlightening, so together, we have made a small >contribution to our little world's better understanding of and knowledge >of the African continent.
Aww. That's much nicer than my reaction would've been.
> Now, if I could only find that there other >"continent" that these Australians keep yakking about. I can't seem to >find it on any of my little atlases. What's it near?:)
Dwight Beers wrote: > Although I do have a number of African maps available to me, I did in fact > do the above from memory. My memory, may not be what it used to be, and I > probably don't remember every African city that has been suggested or used > as some kind of capital city over the past 40 years or so, but I could > certainly still name all of the countries of Africa.
First, thanks for the civil response.
Your knowledge of African geography is much better than mine. I actually had to look up the capital of Benin. I couldn't remember it, but I felt sure it wasn't Cotonou. Didn't realise there were two capitals.
> In my Washington years, as I was kind of a semi-Africanist(at least I > worked among them )I could probably have named all of African heads of > states as well.
I can't name five.
> But, today, I suspect most of the Americans on this newsgroup could do as > well as I in any kind of African geography quiz. After all, we have in > common in this group that we follow the world's most popular sport and > African countries do turn up in the news quite frequently in that sport.
Maybe so, but generally Americans aren't known for their knowledge of world geography. That's why the original poster made his little joke. I got involved in the thread because I thought the people that took exception to his comment were being overly sensitive. And I was hungover and feeling grouchy. And that Barrett person annoys me.
> No in fact, there are quite large communities of Somali's(probably even > more than their more famous brethren up in Lewiston, Maine), Sudanese, > Ethiopian, etc. I threw in Cote d'Ivoire because I happened to work with > an Ivoirien a couple of years back.
There's also a very large African presence where I live (Noble Park in Melbourne). Mostly Sudanese.
> >> All of which could prove to be even more embarassing to you than coming > >> from a country which loses football matches to third-world countries.
> > a) didn't lose
> If your guys now manage to beat Japan and the Netherlands, and our guys > manage to lose to Egypt--have at me.
That still won't turn the first match into a loss, which is all I meant.
> > b) it was a youth match
> IIRC, Richard Nixon was president of the United States, when last I saw an > Australian team (nice Norwich Canary style kits, BTW)in that there World > Cup thingy.:)
Well, this could be a whole new thread but I think it's been discussed before. If we could qualify for the WCF by finishing in the top three of a group consisting of Australia, Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico and Guatemala, then I think we'd be there.
> My post too was written at least half in jest.:)
After a second reading, I can see that.
> But, your responses to my "stupid" post, were highly instructional, > informative and enlightening, so together, we have made a small > contribution to our little world's better understanding of and knowledge > of the African continent.
Not sure how much of that is sarcasm, but yeah...
> Now, if I could only find that there other > "continent" that these Australians keep yakking about. I can't seem to > find it on any of my little atlases. What's it near?:)
ruud (no_em...@hotmail.scum) has kindly taken time out from organising some kind of mutiny of preverts to say...
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:47:29 +1000, mark > <m.gallag...@student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> >IIn fact, I'd never even heard of Benin until > >the SBS commentators starting talking up the game.
> Saturday, 1:40pm on ABC...
> Mosaic: Eyes on the world: Benin - The coast of slaves
There, I *knew* refereeing was stunting my intellectual growth. Damnit, I want my Saturdays back...
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:08:42 -0400, Victoria Barrett
<vbarr...@the-beach.net> wrote: >On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:53:44 +1000, James Allnutt ><Ja...@webgopulltheotherone.com.au> wrote: >>Watching the Simpsons and Futurama? Or not enough thereof apparently.
>>Personally I'd worry if I were you, the "UC" at the end of your >>university name looks disturbingly like "University of Canberra", and >>that can't be good.
>Fortunately for him, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is.
>Go on, James. Ask him about those Nobel Prize winners who use the same >loo as he. I'm sure he has a few stories he can tell you, boy oh boy!
Nobel Prizes are two-a-penny. Even the secondary school I teach in has produced two (although admittedly they had left school by the time they received the awards).
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:11:17 +0100, Paul C <p...@theNOSPAMrsgb.net> wrote:
>Nobel Prizes are two-a-penny. Even the secondary school I teach in has >produced two (although admittedly they had left school by the time >they received the awards).
Magdalen was a hot-bed for Nobel Prizes too. But not very many recently. :-/
Hey, it seems lots of people on RSS have a Nobel Prize connexion.
Maybe we should open an RSS sperm bank, since greatness certainly rubbed off? :)
