Reef Fish wrote:

> >> >All this from a land where a rubber removes mistakes from paper rather
> >> >than preventing them somewhere entirely different.

> >> You've got that one wrong!
> >> They put rubber on their FEET (when it rains) instead of somewhere
else!
> >:-)
> >
> >Like I'm going to listen to somebody of Chinese ancestry, living in the
U.S.
> >and currently in Australia about what the English say.  8^)
>
> You never listen to ANYBODY.  Your specialty is ARGUING -- how many
> different kulcharal meanings are thar for them word?  ;-))

You clearly missed the emoticon at the end of the sentence.  The one at the
end of yours sentence does not make up for the insult contained within
which, here it comes, is your speciality.  I think you call it ad hominum
attack.  8^)

> >My "rubber" comment comes from the aunt of one of my best friends while
> >growing up.  The entire family was British, but the aunt, Molly, was a
> >recent arrival.

> So how did you end up in the swamps of Florida where they still haven't
> counted up the votes in 2000?  ;-)

They didn't do any better in 2001 or 2002.  It was a compromise between
Providence and Scotlandneck.  I was born here.

> The use of "rubber" for the protective rubber bootie that goes on top
> of street shoes is strictly BRITISH, which I learned first hand, from
> the English, in an English colony.

I'm sorry.  You must be right.  The BRITISH LADY who used the term to mean
an eraser, must have been ignorant or lying about her citizenship I suppose.
My mother, who I always thought of as American, possibly because the family
line dates back to the first settlements in this country and, in fact, is
credited with having founded one of the first churches in colonies, must be
BRITISH herself.  Funny I could be so wrong.  Since you never are, it must
be me, and both of them.  Imagine that.

> Since when have you been deterred from arguing after you were proven
> wrong?

Since when does your statement prove anything?

EPIRB?

> I have plenty more.  But this one will do for the rest of this year. <BWG>

Sure it will.  I'm sure everybody believes that's the end of it.

Lee