Ah, thank you, Jill--and please forgive what must have seemed like
Northern-Hemispheric insularity on my part, but was just the usual ignorance
and confusion so endemic to Yanks. Not that your system of holidays isn't a
tad opaque, like this baffling queen's birthday that isn't or perhaps is the
birthday of some other queen? (But maybe this is why you once alleged that
Sydney has too many queens as it is and not enough up the republic!)
Yeah, that soprano axe ain't bad when yer in the mood fer sum letting down
of the old mayhem--oh but it's June already, so I'm even behind on that
score. Let me rush things, then, by proposing 800.40 hours instead of
20(hundred).40, as proposed by Robin, to put ourselves out of the misery all
the sooner. Whaddyarekkon? By my reckoning this would be in US Eastern
Standard Time (which is all I know for sure) eight-forty tomorrow morning,
so creeping up on mid-afternoon for the Brits, Scots, Welsh, and Micks--but
perhaps getting too close to cocoa time for you and your countrypeople?
(Please advise.)
And Kent has sent me a b-c plea for attention to BOTH johnsons@, so those of
you who plan to participate in this strike might want to add the second
e-address as a CC to your "unsubscribe" messages. Up to you, of corps--
Candice
on 6/10/01 8:24 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Candice - unfortunately today here is a holiday known as the Queen's
> Birthday (Father's Day is in September). Although ostensibly it's for a
> certain Betty Windsor (whose actual birthday it isn't - don't ask), I'm sure
> we could claim it for Clytemnestra. She played a mean axe.
>
> Jill
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