From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bill.sloman@ieee.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *** Dr G Polya BRILLIANTLY analyses the Virgina Shooting Incident *** Date: 24 Apr 2007 09:00:56 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177430456.620057.190820__14216.3901859478$1177432556$gmane$org@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <1177266754.126153.202760@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177287460.376404.323520@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1177416547.394200.314950@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177432556 12340 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 16:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:35:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 18:35:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HgNzZ-0004iQ-W5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgO56-0008Qa-KU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:41:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design, sci.optics, comp.text.tex, comp.lang.python, gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.131.10.18 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177430463 9285 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2007 16:01:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:01:03 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1177416547.394200.314950@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.131.10.18; posting-account=9eAkcQwAAAB6QTSQQnHDtaLZZpevkcb8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.electronics.design:731304 sci.optics:94761 comp.text.tex:348858 comp.lang.python:492188 gnu.emacs.help:147493 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43099 Archived-At: On Apr 24, 2:09 pm, Quadibloc wrote: > The Real Andy wrote: > > Makes me wonder about the credibility of any statement Dr Gideon Polya > > makes. > > . > I never thought that I would feel the urge to call someone an > edelweiss-eating Tanzanian devil, but Dr. Polya proved that I lacked > imagination. > > (Note that "Tanzanian" is pronounced Tan.zan._ee_.yan, not > Tan._zayn_.ee.an; one wouldn't want to spoil the effect.) The effect is - in fact - more severely damaged by your confusion between Tasmania - where Dr. Polya actually lives - and Tanzania which is a country in Africa with a name similar enough to confuse semi- literate Americans. Tasmania is a reasonably large island (about the same size as Ireland) a couple of hundred miles south of the Australian mainland. It is a state of Australia (not Austria, which is where you'd need to go for edelweiss). -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen