[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
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tokyo_james said that Haeckel was his great-grandfather's friend, not his great-grandfather.

 

Here in the colonies we would call it a pay raise. I'm speculating that the difference stems from the surfeit of vowels we have owing to our correct spelling of color, neighbor, aluminum, and program (we pick up a consonent as well on that last one). But that's just speculation.

 

I'll ignore the "bougs".

Note, AnDy, that I prefaced my comment with "Incredible fact".

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tokyo_james
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your defence of my ancestors in this matter.

 

Holden (the Aus arm General Motors) have developed a 2 door coupe version of the extremely popular Commodore family car marketed as the Monaro.



This car is now to be exported to the US and rebadged as the Pontiac GTO.

Whether or not this is fact or not I can't say, but it is certainly incredible.

 

Incredible does not mean untrue, it means unbelievable. Since, by your own admission,

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jvils
[B]The calander originally had 10 months.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jedwards
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Blah blah.... :contempt:

One small mistake.

 

Water goes down the plug-hole clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere - as explained by the hypothetical force, theCoriolis effect. Presumably it goes straight down at the equator

 

Could you post some pics?