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 13:47:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177447632.371289.38180__23247.8236350746$1177450539$gmane$org@r30g2000prh.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 1177450539 9484 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 21:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:35:39 +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 23:35:38 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 1HgSfe-0002g2-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:35:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSlC-0005Ex-B4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:41:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r30g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design, sci.optics, comp.text.tex, comp.lang.python, gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.131.10.18 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177447639 20301 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2007 20:47:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:47:19 +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: r30g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.131.10.18; posting-account=9eAkcQwAAAB6QTSQQnHDtaLZZpevkcb8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.electronics.design:731369 sci.optics:94764 comp.text.tex:348880 comp.lang.python:492238 gnu.emacs.help:147521 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:43128 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.) What really spoils the effect is that Dr. Polya lives in Tasmania, a state of Australia, and not in Tanzania, which is a country in East Africa. Semi-literate Americans do tend to confuse the two places, as they also tend confuse Australia and Austria. Oddly enough, edelweiss grows in Austria, so Dr. Polya would have to import it from Europe if he were in the habit of dining on edelweiss - which would be an eccentric habit, even in Austria, where the flower doesn't form part of the normal diet. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen