Yeah Dave,
Problem is we wouldn't be understood. All us Brits know that One billion is really One million
million.
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Cinese poem, very famous
> Roger
>
> you're victims of inflation
>
> (y'know really we should put those American billions out to grass,
> then we'll all feel a little younger, as well as begin to understand the
> economy)
>
> On 5 February 2010 10:48, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dave, As Patrick and I have both passed the two billion mark by around one
>> hundred million or so seconds, passed (past) time becomes fairly irrelevant.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:19 AM
>>
>> Subject: Re: Cinese poem, very famous
>>
>>
>> Of course it was a great link Patrick, I posted it :) As for deliveries,
>>> I
>>> think they only do takeaway or eat in situ. On other venerable matters,
>>> as
>>> I know they concern you, at some point next Tuesday I shall be One Billion
>>> Seven Hundred and Thirty Four Million and Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand
>>> seconds old. How about that then eh?
>>>
>>> (notice I typed the numbers in old money, not as 1,734,480,000, I dislike
>>> the devaluation of words)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 February 2010 17:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> Dave thanks for this link great site -of course as the crude member here I
>>>> particularly enjoyed the adverts on the right from Chinese takeaways to
>>>> Chinese love -do they deliver to Raynes Park??
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
>>>> Sent: 30 January 2010 16:31
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Cinese poem, very famous
>>>>
>>>> http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=224
>>>>
>>>> I believe Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger wrote a book just on this
>>>>
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>>> David Bircumshaw
>>> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>>> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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> David Bircumshaw
> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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