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September 1998, Week 4

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Tony Furnivall <[log in to unmask]>
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Tony Furnivall <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:39:51 -0500
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At 02:15 PM 9/23/98 -0700, Steve Dirickson wrote:
>Unfortunately, calling such date styles "Julian dates" is probably pretty
>much in the same category as referring to a single-humped "ship of the
>desert" as a "camel", or thinking that a sentence like "I will, hopefully,
>hear something by tomorrow" is grammatically correct; all of them are wrong,

Now that's a new one on me. I thought that the single-humped beastie was in
fact a camel, just a different species. Can you enlighten me/us?

Tony "Hope springing eternally" Furnivall

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