#27146
04/24/2001 8:23 PM
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I was going to send this message to a number of you privately since it really has nothing directly to do with AWADTalk, but when I realised the number I'd have to PM, I decided to risk the Wrath of AnnaS and do it here. Sandra and I have sold the house, handed in our notices and are making plans for our move to the UK. Some of you will know that this includes an intended extended tour across the US. We will endeavour to visit as many of those of you who have made the mistake of thinking that meeting me/us will somehow enhance your lives as we can. We will probably cross the water to the US in mid-June. I'll post a fuller itinerary to Max's i-Drive when we know what we're doing. There's gotta be a first time for everything. Thank your for your anticipated forbearance for the abuse of this forum! 
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#27147
04/24/2001 9:24 PM
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wrath, schmath. Good luck and Godspeed.
The grits are a-bubblin' on the stove. Keep us posted.
p.s. Don't schlep over to the wilds of Minnesota wihout a reconnoiter with me, first. Roger, 10-4
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04/24/2001 10:31 PM
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04/25/2001 8:23 AM
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Well, CK, may I offer you warm greetings from the old country, and hope that you will settle happily among us, when you finally arrive. Let it be said straight away that any help that I can offer you, is yours for the asking. I'm looking forward to welcomming you at some point. Just don't get subverted by the sirens of Yankeeland before you've tried the delights of Olde Englande! 
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04/25/2001 10:35 AM
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Ma Atua koutou e manaaki, e tiaki, i nga wa katoa.Thanks Max, I appreciate the sentiment even if I couldn't fully understand the verse. As for your comments on the aptness of my handle, Capital will apply regardless. Provided that you are prepared to swallow one of its other definitions, to wit, "excellent".  And you should remember that whata ngarongaro he tangata, toitu he Aotearoa.
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04/25/2001 2:18 PM
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Happy packing, CK and SWMBO. I await with great anticipation the posting of your itinerary and your periodic (and profuse, I hope) updates on your adventures. I know that your itinerary will include a swing through lower Michigan, won't it?!?!?!
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04/25/2001 5:52 PM
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I know that your itinerary will include a swing through lower Michigan, won't it?!?!?!We're keeping the actual route top secret  so that the forces of darkness won't be able to anticipate our every move*, but I don't doubt that southern Michigan will be in there somewhere** * We haven't planned our actual route yet
** It's between LA and Chicago following "66" as was ...
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#27153
04/25/2001 7:08 PM
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#27154
04/26/2001 3:56 AM
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Seeing that proverb inverted from its regular order suggests one of two things: (a) You're standing on your head to acclimatise to life at the bottom of the world or (3), it was a subtle clue that anastrophe figures on your route.Blame P.M. Ryan, not me. I rather liked it the first time I saw it. Should toitu he Aotearoa come before ngarongaro he tangata? e.g. NZ remains although people disappear? Bloody typical! Although what of, I'm not sure.
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04/26/2001 4:08 AM
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#27156
05/31/2001 10:36 AM
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Just leaping in to tell you all that we're off, and that you can track what we're up to, with my own slant on things, of course, at: http://www.bacchus-marsh.com/
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#27157
05/31/2001 12:10 PM
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Bon voyage, CapK and SWMBO. See you on the flip side of the Pacific. [waving wistfully emoticon]
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#27158
06/01/2001 6:20 PM
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Not to make this too... personal but, do we owe congrats to the "newlywed's"... or have I read the faqs imbedded in the ...marsh incorrectly?
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06/01/2001 7:03 PM
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Not to make this too... personal but, do we owe congrats to the "newlywed's"... or have I read the faqs imbedded in the ...marsh incorrectly? Oops, I meant to take that page down, but didn't. Nope, we got married 18 months ago. Purely business.
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06/01/2001 7:16 PM
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we got married 18 months ago. Purely business. Then congratulations on your business acumen!
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#27161
06/01/2001 8:41 PM
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Then congratulations on your business acumen!Business is acumen' in...are they coo-coo?
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06/01/2001 8:48 PM
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Stopping off in New York at all?
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06/02/2001 3:50 PM
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Dear CapK : Hope you will continue to post on this thread as you travel as some of the more illiterate among us (me, I mean) have trouble getting in to see Max's idrive ... and figuring it out!
D'uuuhhhh.
Have a great trip! See you on the flip side!
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06/02/2001 4:14 PM
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wow, you don't have to go to the i-drive: just click on the link that CK posted on Thu May 31 06:36:06. And I am NOT going to confess that I thought the stories would be on the first page it opens to!
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06/02/2001 5:11 PM
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whata ngarongaro he tangata, toitu he Aotearoa.
What does it mean?
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#27166
06/03/2001 5:00 AM
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06/03/2001 1:52 PM
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In reply to:
And I am NOT going to confess that I thought the stories would be on the first page it opens to!
In that case, I'm not going to confess that I sat there for five minutes waiting for photos to appear.
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#27168
06/04/2001 9:45 AM
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Hi all, just leapt in here to tell you that part 3 is now posted to http://www.bacchus-marsh.com. No photos yet, but I'll insert them post-hoc as appropriate once I get some in digital format. CLICK ON THE LINKS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE PAGE TO SEE THE STORIES.Sorry, don't have time (someone else's Internet connection) to poke around. But the number of posts mounting up is frightening. Hope you're all enjoying the drivel, anyhow. I keep myself amused while driving thinking about what I'm going to say next. Then surprise myself anyhow. 
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#27169
06/07/2001 7:31 PM
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And number 5 has just been posted, folks!
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06/12/2001 12:01 PM
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06/12/2001 2:18 PM
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Link won't display ... site down?
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06/12/2001 2:21 PM
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Dunno, wow. Works for me.
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06/12/2001 2:29 PM
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Hmmmmmmm! Thanks Faldage, I will just keep trying ... those guys trying to perfect Artificial Intelligence should work with my computer! Sometimes it just has a mind of its own !!
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06/17/2001 5:19 AM
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Hi all,
Hope not too many people are not able to read it. Wow, I suggest you try using MS Explorer (if you aren't already). I can't really afford the resources to control for Nutscrape's built-in problems, I have enough difficulties with IE5 ...
There are now PICCIES in some of the pages and there will be more when I learn to drive properly on the wrong side of the road.
Cheers all!
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06/17/2001 7:18 AM
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06/18/2001 6:04 AM
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Max, you're both right and wrong. "Edinburgh" is the "Town of Edin". It was once called "Dunedin", but it means "Edin under the hill or below" (approximately, I'm no Gaelic expert), but it's not exactly the same thing. "Edin under the hill" transliterated as "Edinburgh of the South" isn't so far away. And I still haven't learned to drive wrongly on the right. Did I get that right? Or left? Or just wrong?
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06/18/2001 12:10 PM
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Macfarlane's Dictionary ( http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MF2/ lists: dùn
nm. g.v. dùin; pl. dùin, heap, mount, mound, fortress, fortification
which sounds like a pretty good translation of the Sassenach burgh
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06/21/2001 12:38 AM
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06/21/2001 10:58 AM
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On the Sunday we braved the public transport system
You've now done something that probably 99.44% of LA residents have never ever done. Most of them have probably never even thought it was possible.
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06/21/2001 1:25 PM
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You've now done something that probably 99.44% of LA residents have never ever done. Most of them have probably never even thought it was possible.
You must be exaggerating, at least a little bit. LA has a fairly extensive public transport system, and it's heavily used. Also we found that people were very friendly and helpful when we got confused about which bus or train to catch. Kudos to LA - I never thought I'd leave it having liked being there!
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06/21/2001 1:50 PM
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Thanks for keeping going with the virtual postcards, CK - it's fun. Happy travelling.
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06/21/2001 2:44 PM
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Yeah CK, these are great. Now we know who has been ghost-writing all of Bryson's travelogues all along!
Rod
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06/21/2001 3:21 PM
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Well, it has a McDonalds, but I'm sure that Hell has one of those.
My nomination for quip of the year.
Actually, my idea of Hell is that there is only one place to eat, the (one) McDonalds. [See the chapter in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where the retreat leader gives a detailed description of Hell.]
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06/26/2001 4:53 AM
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Parts 11 and 12 were uploaded tonight. Sorry for the delay or the uploading, depending on your point of view.
I'm stymied from time to time by the presence or absence of Prodigy local access numbers. Why would Barstow have two while Albuquerque only has one? In fact, all of New Mexico only has one. Woe, woe!
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06/26/2001 3:47 PM
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Prodigy
I'm not surprised there aren't that many numbers. I thought that company already died in the US.
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