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...in his best mock Dutch accent...Do the Dutch really *do that, or was it more like this guy? http://www.almac.co.uk/chef/chef/swedish.html
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Now you've gone and done it! I LOVE the Muppets and I LOVE the Swedish Chef. I very much enjoyed the website to which we were just referred. And I MISS the little furry creatures on televison. No, I'm sure that real live Dutch people don't speak English in a stereotypic accent any more than any real live human from Sweden speaks English in an accent like that made famous by the Swedish Chef. From time to time, I actually don a white chef's jacket and toque* and, on those occasion, persons who do not hold me in sufficient reverence have been heard to suggest that I LOOK a bit like the Swedish chef. Given my magiric aspirations, I take that as a compliment. ------------------------------- *The toque was earned, not honorary, as I was named a Chef of the West by Sunset Magazine in 1987. 
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Although my usual *tone would lead one to believe that I was mostly having a tug at someone's leg, this time I was just adjusting the pants because of a wedgie...
... as a 5 timer to the Scandanavian peninsula, the Norske's (and even more so the Swede's) who speak English, do, indeed, have the stereotypical "singsong" inflections (of course not as pronounced), and the letter "w" is called a "double-v" for the not so not obvious reason.
I've truly have never heard Dutch spoken... (I can feel the hotlinks arriving as I'm saying that...
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Although I haven't been around a lot, Fr Steve, it seems to me that you've done darned near EVERYTHING! ...like most of us occasionally only think about doing!
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you've done darned near EVERYTHING!
Life, thus far, has been very full and very satisfying. It makes one wonder what wonderful thing is going to happen next.
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I finally got a response to my query about the tidal movements of water in wells, which I post below it its entirety. I've not had a chance to look at the links, but it appears there are two kinds of tides, earth-tide and ocean-tide. I was almost fit to be tide! Instead I'm TEd Sorry for the delay in my response, I was in a meeting down in Florida last week. The diurnal fluctuations are related to earth tides and are not related to ocean tides. Below is some additional information that may interest you: Merritt, Michael, L., 2004, Estimating Hydraulic Properties of the Floridan Aquifer System by Analysis of Earth-Tide, Ocean-Tide, and Barometric Effects, Collier and Hendry Counties, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4267, 70 p. http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri034267/ Earthquake and Wells http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/fs/fs-096-03/ Pennsylvania Earthquake http://pa.water.usgs.gov/reports/wri99-4170/index.html Hope this helps Dave David L. Nelms District Ground-Water Specialist U.S. Geological Survey 1730 East Parham Road Richmond, VA 23228 (804) 261-2630 (804) 261-2659 (Fax) dlnelms@usgs.gov http://va.water.usgs.gov/
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I've naught thought very much on earth tides. Woods Hole apparently has : http://www.whoi.edu/info/tides.html
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Thank you Ted, the information David Nelms sent you was good reading and informative and the conclusion was refreshingly straightforward...
Conclusions
Hydrogeologic responses to large distant earthquakes have important scientific implications with regard to our earth’s intricate plumbing system. The exact mechanism linking hydrogeologic changes and earthquakes is not fully understood, but monitoring these changes improves our insights into the responsible mechanisms, and may improve our frustratingly imprecise ability to forecast the timing, magnitude, and impact of earthquakes.
Now I know more about well changes from earthquakes than I did know but I still don't know a lot.
Strange World indeed.
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