I'm used to not being understood Roger.
On 5 February 2010 11:27, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:13 AM
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> 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 <
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>>>> >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/
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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
>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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>>
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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
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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