Umrats may be interested...

[Colin Blackburn]

While I was browsing in Blackwells today I came across a novel
called Five Boys by Mick Jackson. The cover featured the Fry's
chocolate wrapper.

Here's a line-broken url to Amazon's page:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571206131/o/qid=/sr=8-
1/ref=sr_aps_b_1_1/202-6039280-5679807

Colin

[Andrew John Wineberg]

On 29 Aug 2001 13:41:47 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:

> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571206131

> works just as well.

OK. Look, don't worry about me or anything but this really is something
that I have long wanted to know.

In an amazon URL, what does "obidos" mean to the site designers and,
much more importantly, how should it be pronounced?

--
AJW in Stanmore HA7

[Robin Somes]

In article <MPG.15f81893...@news.freeserve.net>, Andrew John
Wineberg <AJWin...@Yahoo.co.UK> writes

>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571206131
>
>> works just as well.
>
>OK. Look, don't worry about me or anything but this really is something
>that I have long wanted to know.
>

Yes. Me too.

>In an amazon URL, what does "obidos" mean to the site designers and,

Probably the ancient Greek deity of web designers.

>much
>more importantly, how should it be pronounced?

With verve and aplomb...

cheers,
robin
--
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www.blackwell-science.com/southwood www.irchouse.demon.co.uk
Trust me, I'm a webmaster......

[Stephen]

Meanwhile, back in the umra bunker, Andrew John Wineberg
<AJWin...@Yahoo.co.UK> said:

Obidos is a port city on the River Amazon.

It should probably pronounced with a Brazilian accent.

--
Stephen

Sometimes an analogy is a correspondence of features between
otherwise different things, and sometimes it's just an analogy.

[Andrea Collins]

In article <3b8ea534....@news.RDC1.MD.HOME.COM>, Stephen
<stephe...@yahoo.com> writes

>Meanwhile, back in the umra bunker, Andrew John Wineberg
><AJWin...@Yahoo.co.UK> said:
>
>>On 29 Aug 2001 13:41:47 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571206131
>>
>>> works just as well.
>>
>>OK. Look, don't worry about me or anything but this really is something
>>that I have long wanted to know.
>>
>>In an amazon URL, what does "obidos" mean to the site designers and,
>>much more importantly, how should it be pronounced?
>
>Obidos is a port city on the River Amazon.
>
>It should probably pronounced with a Brazilian accent.
>

I think it's just another word for the ISBN number.

But I don't know why....
--
Andrea Collins

[Min Lacey]

In article <E5jF7DAF...@andrea1.demon.co.uk>, Andrea Collins
<col...@andrea1.demon.co.uk> used the electronic medium to say

Well, I think it's pronounced as I did when I tripped over the carrier
bag^W^W^W^W^W made perfect three point night carrier landing and broke
my nose....
--
Min
Make them an otter they can't defuse.
Proud Person with a PHIL. GULP.

[Kim Andrews]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:22:55 +0100, Min Lacey
<M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[OBIDOS]

>Well, I think it's pronounced as I did when I tripped over the carrier
>bag^W^W^W^W^W made perfect three point night carrier landing and broke
>my nose....

ROFL! :o))
--
Cheers, Kimbo
Best of umra at www.totternhoe.demon.co.uk & click on the chicken!
BT winner FAUX award 2000 & Special Distasteful Category Award 1999
GULP & PHIL - Strumpet Extraordinaire & Founding FONT
www.foca.co.uk

[Stephen GC Tilley]

While booking my seat on the over-50s seaside outing I heard Andrea say ...

É uma cidade histórica, que fica na margem esquerda do Rio Amazonas no interior
do estado do Pará, distante 1100 km de Belém (via fluvial). Em frente a cidade
as margens do rio tornam-se mais estreitas e com isso o rio fica também mais
profundo, formando como se diz na região a garganta do Rio Amazonas. Nesse ponto
a largura do rio é de cerca de 1890 metros no leito normal. Graças a essa
formação geográfica, no local foram construídas duas fortalezas no século XVII
para proteger o interior da Amazônia de invasores, mas segundo historiadores,
jamais um único tiro foi disparado pelos canhões locais com o intuito de
rechaçar qualquer invasão.

--
Stephen Tilley - um...@aol.com
Success is getting what you want - Happiness is wanting what you get.

[Tony Walton]

At a guess, it might mean that the web pages (or that which generates
them) was produced by Obidos Internet Services GmbH of Bonn.

For an internet company they have a very boring website -
http:///www.obidos.de

--
Tony

[Kim Andrews]

On 31 Aug 2001 02:19:31 -0700, Stephen GC Tilley <um...@aol.com>
wrote:

>É uma cidade histórica, que fica na margem esquerda do Rio Amazonas no interior

And Ms Thurman, who's daddy is historical, queued for the
Festival Internacional de Cinema do Algarve (FICA) with Marge
who's gay (they're both big girls) but couldn't get in...

Hang on! If every line's going to translate out to three in
English, I haven't got time for all this. Where's Manuel when
you need him?

p.s. Obidos also seems to be a rather lovely looking town in
Portugal. http://www.cm-obidos.pt/cmo/inglesindex.htm

[Bernard M. Earp]

In article <9mnkr...@drn.newsguy.com>, Stephen GC Tilley
<um...@aol.com> writes

>É uma cidade histórica, que fica na margem esquerda do Rio Amazonas no interior
>do estado do Pará, distante 1100 km de Belém (via fluvial). Em frente a cidade
>as margens do rio tornam-se mais estreitas e com isso o rio fica também mais
>profundo, formando como se diz na região a garganta do Rio Amazonas. Nesse ponto
>a largura do rio é de cerca de 1890 metros no leito normal. Graças a essa
>formação geográfica, no local foram construídas duas fortalezas no século XVII
>para proteger o interior da Amazônia de invasores, mas segundo historiadores,
>jamais um único tiro foi disparado pelos canhões locais com o intuito de
>rechaçar qualquer invasão.

That's easy for you to say
--
Bernard M. Earp
Holding the Lancastrian heights of Bromley Cross
and the PLOP Award 2001