On Feb 7, 10:55*pm, Devils Advocaat wrote:
On Feb 8, 12:12*am, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"





wrote:
On Feb 7, 4:58*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.


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

It's entirely relevant. *If you don't like, invent your own. *Oh,
wait someone sorta did with the world wide web.

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 key point is "working version". *I have a feeling this will
come up a lot.

With British automobiles, "working version" is pretty standard - as in
working on it all the time.

Thank god the Germans own Mini - now it's finally a reliable vehicle.

But in matters of patenting, whoever patents an idea, even if they
produce no working version, the patent holder is attributed as the
inventor or discoverer.

Patent theft, such as Shockley and Pearson carried out is dishonest at
best

The real theft is that those "vehicles" were allowed to be sold to a
public who generally believed that their cars wouldn't live in the
shop - er - shoppe 90% of the time.