9 Apr 2012 00:16
Re: Test
Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog <at> gmail.com>
2012-04-08 22:16:27 GMT
2012-04-08 22:16:27 GMT
~~~ On 2012/04/07 08:31, John Heinrichs at minicapt1 <at> me.com wrote ~~~ > There was some disagreement: some voted from Barcelona, others wanted > Baluchistan. Personally, I thought you were in Bogota. > Sorry ... > First, I¹d like to say ³Happy Easter² to everyone who celebrated Easter today and ³Good Pesach² to everyone who celebrated Passover this past Friday. Second, thanks to everyone who responded to my message, and for greetings from different places. It¹s good to experience belonging to such a broad ³family² of people with a common interest. <at> John: since Colombian coffee is my favourite ³ordinary² variety of coffee, your guess of Bogota is by far the best wrong answer.Seriously, I¹d risk the drug cartels or earthquakes or anything else they can threaten, just for the experience of drinking a cup (or many!) of Colombian coffee right there under the Colombian sun. But this is a family trip to spend Easter together, and they¹d take it badly if I announced that I¹d rather be in South America on a coffee plantation! At least I get the compensation of drinking really well-made espresso at prices that mean I can afford **a lot** of espresso without being impoverished. I could get used to this, even allowing for the fact that we apparently brought dreary British weather along with us ... <at> Richard: you have no idea how tempting that sounds to me! Shalom, Christian ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ³Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a Newton.² -- ref.: Arthur C. Clarke http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzpdPJ7Zr4 (With thanks to Chod Lang) http://tinyurl.com/29y2dl http://www.diyplanner.com/node/3942 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Fight Spam. Join EuroCAUCE: http://www.euro.cauce.org/ Get MUGged and love it: http://www.oxmug.org/ Join today: http://www.newtontalk.net/ ==================================================================== The NewtonTalk Mailing List - http://newtontalk.net/ The Official Newton FAQ - http://splorp.com/newton/faq/ The Newton Glossary - http://splorp.com/newton/glossary/ WikiWikiNewt - http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/ ====================================================================
Seriously, I¹d
risk the drug cartels or earthquakes or anything else they can threaten,
just for the experience of drinking a cup (or many!) of Colombian coffee
right there under the Colombian sun. But this is a family trip to spend
Easter together, and they¹d take it badly if I announced that I¹d rather be
in South America on a coffee plantation! At least I get the compensation
of drinking really well-made espresso at prices that mean I can afford **a
lot** of espresso without being impoverished. I could get used to this,
even allowing for the fact that we apparently brought dreary British weather
along with us ...
<at> Richard: you have no idea how tempting that sounds to me!
Shalom,
Christian
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
³Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a Newton.²
-- ref.: Arthur C. Clarke
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