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Do you mean about Aristotle's Metaphysics just being the book that came after the one on physics rather than describing a subject that was beyond physics (the Greek word meta could mean after or beyond)?
Whoops! Didn't spot this earlier. Yes indeed. I love the notion that this fanciful subject - 'metaphysics' - has a name that arose out of a misunderstanding.
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Max is an addict, Max is an addict!
Cheers all 'round!
Also--to bring the topic over from, I think, info. and announcements: I'm inclined to think that 20 posts would make one no longer a stranger, but I also seriously doubt that Anu is going to change his requirements. Confess my curiosity would like to be satisfied by learning the scheme/rhyme/reason for the title changes!
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Commiserations Max.
I think that this may be the only place on earth where people are congratulated on becoming addicts. I'll send a prescription shortly. In the meantime, I recommend plenty of sunscreen so you can get out more in that lovely summer sunshine. I also hear the Betty Ford clinic is very good, they have paper and pens to save you going cold turkey. Tsuwm is not allowed anywhere near as he has access to some very dangerous Internet sites. Shanks is wanted by Interpol and is expected to serve a very long sentence. After a while you will reach a half way house where you will be allowed to use only sign language (lessons by Brandon) so you'll never need to main line another OED (curiously spell-checked as Oedipal).
Just got to dash to another Internet Cafe, I like to keep on the move.
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Shanks is wanted by Interpol and is expected to serve a very long sentence.
A hit
A very palpable hit!
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In reply to:
In the meantime, I recommend plenty of sunscreen so you can get out more in that lovely summer sunshine.
Hah! As I write this, Hawke's Bay, the sunshine province of NZ, is being whipped by frigid southerly winds, whose icy fingers are gleefully flicking gelid drops in our faces. Still, when summer does come, it will be nice to know that 8 minutes outside unprotected should almost guarantee skin trouble, perhaps enabling one to join the club of NZers (one a day) who die from melanoma.
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If anyone is good at sums. They might like to look at the time zones included in the posts made over the last few minutes. There was another from Tsuwm in the red-brick thread.
Interesting to get the UK, New Zealand and the USA all on line at the same time. Tsuwm is still in Saturday evening, Shanks and I are in the early hours of Sunday morning and Max is thinking about his Sunday lunch! It wasn't all that long ago when it wasn't possible to speak to someone in another continent without a long gap between words - amazing!
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Is it Sunday morning already? I must remember to keep looking at my watch. (Yes, you're right - it's about 0045 GMT.)
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For anybody running Win9.x (maybe ME, no guarantees)- sorry Anna, you could go here: http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=9f78513f.96073&name=useful+stuff and download a freeware app. called clockrack.exe It sits at the top of your screen, hidden until clicked on, and will display the time in up to ten different timezones at once. I currently have mine set to LA, London, NY, Tokyo, Auckland, and Melbourne. It takes all the guess work out of determining who's up past their bedtime! 
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Thanks, Max! However, I've got a dozen analog clocks up on my wall, just like my good old days in the newsroom  ... lends atmosphere, donchaknow! Err.... Mr Mac (my pet name for the diesel-powered one who connects me to y'all) and I still haven't figured out those half- and quarter-hour time zones, though 
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Just thought I'd mark the start of yet another addiction. So let's see now - women , alcohol, nictoine, caffeine, shopping, chocolate, cannabis( ), words - any I've left out?
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