Re: USA Election

Your Name wrote on 21/11/24 8:29 am:

On 2024-11-20 10:23:55 +0000, Daniel70 said:

The Doctor wrote on 20/11/24 3:49 pm:

In article <vhjjqs$28q5e$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-11-19 11:04:56 +0000, Daniel70 said:

Blueshirt wrote on 19/11/24 1:37 am:

Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote:

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Happy Christmas!

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A TAD early, aren't you, Blueshirt?? (Yes, I can be a Grinch
at times.)

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Tell that to the shops...
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Yeap. I can relate .... When I was in The Australian Army, more often
than not the period from Melbourne Cup Day (first Tuesday in November)
marked the start of "Silly Season" with various Troop, Company,
Regiment and Mess Dinners (i.e. Christmas piss-ups) having to occur.
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The shops have only just started the extended seasons.

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The shops here have had their Christmas stock on the shelves for about
two months already. One house around here has all their Christmas
decorations up inside and another has their silly inflatable garden
decorations out too. The main Auckland City Santa Parade is on 24
November, with many city suburbs having their own Santa parades during
November and Decmber..   :-\

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Decmber?

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LOOK OUT, Your Name, Gobble-de-gook is picking on YOUR spelling!! ;-P

 Yep, it's Decmber ... comes after Novmber and before Janury. It's the lazy American spelling where they just decide to leave out an 'unnecessary' letter, like they do with "color", etc.  :-p

Ah!! Is that why they often talk about "Math" (short for "Mathematics") rather than "Maths" like the rest of the English Speaking World?? ;-P
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Daniel