Meeting Royalty in Europe

Robert wrote:
I know where Sweden is on the map. You think this is a joke? In my 12th
grade class out of 30 students I was the only one to know - and most of
the students were at the top of the class in a school with a "good"
reputation.

You continue to undermine your academic honors credentials.

miguel
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See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/

Barney wrote:
I'm surprised that you had the opportunity to study abroad on such a
general degree - I thought that chance was reserved for the more
intensively academic courses. But maybe yours was a special case?

Not sure how it works in British universities, but in the USA most study
abroad programs are self-funded (i.e., the student pays the extra costs) so
they compete for students on the basis of how much fun they're going to be.
These are usually open to anyone who's not in immediate danger of flunking
out.

There are a few scholarship programs and these are very competitive. But
even many of these are available to people in almost any field of study.

miguel
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See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Digital signatures are a way to prove that an electronic message
definitely was written by a specific person. Unlike handwritten
signatures or simple typed signatures (like "-- Mxsmanic" at the end of
a post), digital signatures cannot be forged.

But what ARE they? And how do you find them? (There are a few
"forgers" on another of my newsgroups whom I'm sure those whose names
they have been "borrowed" would be happy to report to the forger's ISP.)

Sometimes you'll see that a message starts with this:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

and ends with something like this:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1

iQBvAwUAPgZLIjanThAdit3tAQHqegLOJ38fBTGg+4Jj4bnFrY Oqmz5gtdD0rukd
5eGBkA7zHs//z3WE8iz/4miqo8FHepgPGUs7iXtps3Jp3cryhCXV38gPu2q5LbWp
mRi6UTL3SYeLpp/QhbNvp9yy
=Yy0x
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

If you're sufficiently motivated, you can look up the sender's public key at
a repository like http://pgp.mit.edu/ and then run it through PGP software
to verify that the text of the message is exactly as the holder of the
matching private key wrote it.

In practice, of course, almost nobody does this.

miguel
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See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ...
Robert wrote:

Yes because you are at the level where you think spelling is
everything. You should know as you move up to the university level
spelling doesn't count in many of the subjects - just remembering
facts at test time.

Then "education" in America has deteriorated even further than I thought
it had! There WAS a time when college graduates were expected to be
literate - at least in their OWN language. (And to remember those
"facts" for a lifetime, not promptly forget them once "test time" was
over.)

That's all at most universities. So I just used
most of my time to study (remember facts) and when I was finished to
meet girls (have sex). I did so good they said I was an honor student
and all this.

Well, "honor" is as honor does - was your "university" even accredited?

In fact they acclaimed me nationwide by inducting my
into the elite national honor society. I forget what it's called but
Hilary Clinton belonged to it too.

If someone with your demonstrable ignorance is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, I'm the Queen of Rumania!

There are good teachers and bad
teachers. Which one are you? I think you are in the bad category.

And both she and I think YOU are an incurable idiot! Why don't you just
go away and leave this newsgroup to the adults?


My university is accredited here is the US. Has been since the late
1800's. Phi Beta Kappa. That's it! That's the one that accepted me
(due to my grades which were due to my memory). You know they wanted
like US$20.00 for me to join. I thought this was in bad taste. But
yes, they accepted me. Then I went on a student exchange to a foreign
country (can't say because of my princess) and met my princess friend.

Marie Lewis wrote in message ...
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writes
(David) wrote in message
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Marie Lewis wrote in message
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Obviously I have been all over western Europe.


OK. What is the name of the village between Ribchester and Old Langho.
How many shops are there and how many houses. Is there a pub? a
church?


...and where can we find a white wooden house with a boarded-up front door ?

Leistshire


Pardon?

I meant leicestershire.

Reid writes:

which mixes are terrifying?

You don't know until you get them. For example, Oriental and Caucasian
usually look fine, and often quite pleasant, but I've seen some really
bad results in a few cases. It all depends on how the genes mix. Some
people get the best characteristics of both races, and a some luckless
others get the worst characteristics. And in most cases, the result is
average, of course.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

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(Deep Freud Moors) wrote:

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:52:08 +0000,
(David Horne) wrote:

Deep Freud Moors wrote:

I am sure, but I don't have enough interest in her to start googling.
She is not very successful in riling me.

I admit, I was ****ed off enough to do the research. It was
frightening.
A bit like that bit in "The Shining" when the writer's wife realises
he's written the _same_ sentence over and over again...

David

Oeil werk und non plait, maix Müri eau dahl gürl...

A l'eau! C'est l'heure!

Un petit d'un petit c'etonne aux Halles...


G a
--
Marie Lewis

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I've never been sure where Walford is supposed to be -- I imagine
somewhere in the Manchester orbit.


I think Walford is the setting for Eastenders..........

Corrie is set in the Salford area.
--
Marie Lewis

wrote:

[1] I've never been sure where Walford is supposed to be -- I imagine
somewhere in the Manchester orbit.

It's Weatherfield. (Walford is Eastenders.) Weatherfield is supposed to
be in Salford (which borders Manchester)- the opening credits show
streets in Salford (some of which, I believe, are derelict now.) The
studio set, including the street (at Granada) is not far from Salford,
but technically it is in Manchester- an area called Castlefield, which
has been transformed recently with a lot of new residential buildings,
renovated factories etc. The bit where you see the tram passing by on
the overpass is a fake image, although the tram does _run_ to Salford on
the Eccles line. Recently, a councillor from Salford complained that
Coronation Street wasn't good for the image of Salford! Talk about
mixing fanatasy and reality. In any case, the occasional serial murderer
aside, what inner city urban area in the UK would really _mind_ being
associated with Weatherfield? The fictional town has a strong sense of
community, and the people are, on the whole, pretty friendly.

[2] Marie, David -- I still want to know what happened to Tyrone's
lurcher! Did it die in episodes I missed?

You've lost me. I don't watch it all the time, and if I'm away for a
while, I don't usually try and catch up. (You don't really need to.) It
would take too long!

David

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David Horne- website under re-construction
davidhorne (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:00:31 +0000 (UTC),
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(EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)) wrote:



Reid wrote:

Following up to David Horne

coronation street of all things, dear oh dear.

Hey. I'm a fan of Corrie! That's why I lurked there for a while.
Her
posts were really creepy.

The soaps are an area I just don't like, getting committed to
watching so much TV...and I hear people talking as if its real...
how would I find the time for usenet if I watched them? :-)

You mean people are like that in England, too?

Very much so.

[----]

We also get the Australian ones on daytime/early-evening TV (the dog likes
daytime TV, *I'd* never watch them of course...). They seem more
superficial, but I think they're aimed at a teenage audience.

Scene 23, Interior, Day. 23 Kookaburra Drive.

Enter Shona.

SHONA: Aw, Mum, I feel terrible. I've had such a bad day at school.

MUM: Wassa matter, darlin'?

SHONA: It's that Mrs Lewis, Mum, she keeps nagging me......about my
spelling. She shows me up in front of the
class............and.......and even Bruce has started s******ing at
me.

MUM: Stone the crows, Shona, that's out of order.

SHONA: - Mum...........what's a split infinitive?

MUM: Jeez, Shona, yer a bit young for that sort of
talk..............can we discuss it when yer Dad comes back from work?