don't like being called a mick.
mairead
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Candice Ward wrote:
> 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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