On Feb 7, 7:34*pm, "The Undead Edward M. Kennedy" wrote:
"Devils Advocaat" wrote









Downtown Abbey is a pretty good program on BBC America. However,
actual research suggests that British aristocracy treated most of the
domestic class like animals. In fact, I believe some hunting dogs had
it much better than your typical laundry maid. Yes, the Butler and
Housekeeper were treated with respect, but still, seems like this
program is quite inaccurate regarding the Victorian domestic class.
Maybe it's simply liberal Brit revisionist history at work again,
through the auspices of 'high entertainment' by the BBC.

Kate Winslet was good in that Titanic movie.
A bit chubby maybe, but really, quite a fine thespian.

Bullshit - Kate Winslet is a fat cow.

In that case you should enjoy her if she is voted "dish of the day" at
your favourite restaurant.

As a matter of interest, what has this to do with football?

The game you refer to is called soccer - not football.

Sometimes people forget that American English is the standard
on the usenet.


Not entirely true.

Lessee...we invented not only the chatrooms we are using, but
the computer you use to post here and the networks for computers
to communicate with each other. *Not to mention the transistor
that enabled computers to be small enough.

--Tedward

That is irrelevant to your claim regarding the standard language of
usenet.

As it happens the first transistor patent was registered in Canada by
the Austrian-Hungarian physicist, Julius Lilienfeld in 1925.

Shockley and Pearson built a working version based on that patent, but
failed to mention this in their papers and articles.

The first electronic programmable computer - the Colossus - was
British built in 1943.

The first American computer of the same sort wasn't fully operational
until 1945.

Everything since then has merely been developments based on those
previous devices.

As it happens if such developments hadn't taken place your development
of computer networks and bulletin boards which led to the emergence of
the Internet, chatrooms and newsgroups would never have arisen.

Claiming America is solely responsible for all that technology is
consequently a false claim, as erroneous to be honest a claiming it
was Americans and their technology alone that first put a man on the
moon.

Don't forget who developed the first missiles and rockets that gave
your guys the ideas; the Germans, and that famous defector Wenher von
Braun.