Meeting Royalty in Europe

In article ,
(Marie Lewis) wrote:

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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.

Sorry, you're quite right of course. Getting my Ws mixed up: Corrie is
We(a)therfield, isn't it?

In article ,
(Miguel Cruz) wrote:

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

OIC.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in
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wrote:

In article ,
(Robert) wrote:


Finance but the first two years were all general subjects from
Astronomy to Zoology. And if your memory wasn't good you couldn't do
well on the tersts. They mostly required the reguritation of
memorized
facts.

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?

Well, one of my fellow music-majors at my liberal arts college got a
Fullbright scholarship to study voice in Italy - but a) she was
exceptionally talented, and b) she had a brain.


Fulbright scholarships and study abroad programs are completely
different. Any old (or rather young) fool with cash (or a loan) can
study abroad.

Magda wrote:

Time to learn that English is my fourth language and Reid's first ?

Who cares? I wish you'd learned civility in just one of them.

plonk

David

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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 09:38:20 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote:

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.

And in your case, an Alpha Centaurian and a ....... - so what are you
like, Mr Manix?

Miguel Cruz wrote:

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:

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and ends with something like this:

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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.

I can see why! (Hardly anybody CARES that much!)


miguel
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Robert wrote:


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.

In your case, they should have made it $20,000,000! (Your "billionaire
friend" could have picked up the tab.)

Reid wrote:

Following up to

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.

and US ones, "Friends" and others I cant remember the names of.
although I think they are more comedy than soap. Personally I
cannot watch anything where an actor comes on, smiles to camera
and taped applause and laughter result. I think we will buy
anything if its cheap enough. I wish they would buy some rubbish
Spanish soap so I could tape it and try and improve my Spanish.

Find a friend in Southern California with the time to tape them - we
have about half a dozen Spanish language channels on cable here. Some
of them offer dramatic shows, and some of those appear to be serials.
(They're not all Mexican, either - we have residents here from all over
Central and South America.)

Or Bill Gates.


On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:12:19 GMT, (Miguel Cruz) wrote:
This totally fails to explain Prince Charles.
miguel

Robert wrote:
Oh yes it does. The rich kids (in general) look better. I'm not talking
about health or clothes here. I'm talking about physical beauty. As you go
up in income people (of all ages - except maybe babies) people become more
attractive. You don't see this??? What happens is a guy becomes rich and
marries a good looking woman. His kids look better. Then those kids marry
the other rich and beautiful and so on. It's so true I can't believe you
don't see it.


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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:

I can see why! (Hardly anybody CARES that much!)

Sometimes it matters a lot.

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