Sujet : Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule
De : psperson (at) *nospam* old.netcom.invalid (Paul S Person)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 22. Jul 2025, 16:48:16
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:32:59 -0000 (UTC), John Savard
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:26:36 -0700, The Horny Goat wrote:
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Guess I'm behind the times - I had never heard of that country till
Trump mentioned it the other day - so I Googled and found they had
changed their name some 20 years ago.
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I'm in the same boat as you; I, too, had to Google to learn that Eswatini
was Swaziland with a new name, just like Burkina Faso is Upper Volta with
a new name.
I experienced that long ago, when I assigned a report on "Northern and
"Southern Rhodesia" and found that the names had ... changed.
Something to do with the end of colonialism, no doubt.
-- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,Who evil spoke of everyone but God,Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
[OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule
Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule