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  • C Charlie Williams

    Ramanan Sivan wrote: Vishwanathan Anand I may be outing myself as a wierdo here, but I've always loved saying that name. It kind of just rolls off the tongue. (Although I'm only assuming that I'm saying it correctly.) Vish-wan-athan A-nand Charlie if(!curlies){ return; }

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    wrykyn
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    Yeah most South Indian names you can pronounce right by enunciating all the vowel sounds clearly. Very rarely are names shortened. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."

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    • C Colin Angus Mackay

      that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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      Edward V. Appleton ... [nobelprize.org^] ...would have been a school mate of mine if I'd been born 60 years earlier. Not hugely famous outside of physics circles but without his discovery .. the "Appleton Layer" ( now known as the ionosphere ) you wouldn't be able to watch live broadcast of international cricket matches from foreign countries ... ... which brings me to the second "famous name" from Hanson--who was a school-mate back in the day--Dave Bairstow: played a pretty fair hand of 3-card-brag behind the stands (bleachers) at lunch time when he was supposed to be running laps in training for what would become his career a England's wicket-keeper from 1979 to 1981... [www.sporting-heroes.net^] A short career but he was largely responsible for putting the Aussies in their place during the first official World Series in Australia (1979-80) ;-) Steve T

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      • C Colin Angus Mackay

        that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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        Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous? Famous? No. Infamous? Yes. My highschool graduating class numbered 237. In the 24 years since, 3 are currently serving time for murder and 4 were shot to death while committing felonies (all on seperate occasions). I know of at least 10 others who have served 8+ years each for various violent felonies. I went to a rough highschool. :omg: "Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." Philip K. Dick

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        • C Colin Angus Mackay

          that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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          Colin Angus Mackay wrote: that I went to the same school At least you didn't go to Dummer Academy![^] :-D (I hear they are changing their name, BTW) Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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            Colin Angus Mackay wrote: that I went to the same school At least you didn't go to Dummer Academy![^] :-D (I hear they are changing their name, BTW) Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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            Colin Angus Mackay
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            Marc Clifton wrote: At least you didn't go to Dummer Academy Looks like a nice school - I sense, however, that I am missing something.


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            • C Colin Angus Mackay

              Marc Clifton wrote: At least you didn't go to Dummer Academy Looks like a nice school - I sense, however, that I am missing something.


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              Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I sense, however, that I am missing something. :-D Try saying outloud, "Hi, I went to Dummer Academy". It may be that you don't verbalize when you read. I'm a slow reader because I always verbalize. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I sense, however, that I am missing something. :-D Try saying outloud, "Hi, I went to Dummer Academy". It may be that you don't verbalize when you read. I'm a slow reader because I always verbalize. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                Ah..... For some reason my brain didn't pick that up - It kept telling me that the name of the school was Drummer Academy.


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                • C Colin Angus Mackay

                  that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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                  For one year I went to the school where classical composer Jean Sibelius[^] and Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi[^] were educated.

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                  • C Colin Angus Mackay

                    that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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                    Alan Bean - astronaut The Legion of Doom. Googling I found it was the basis of Brotherhood of Justice[^].


                    I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                    • C Colin Angus Mackay

                      that I went to the same school, The Royal High School[^] as Alexander Graham Bell (obviously at different times) The article on Bell[^] himself indicates that he was a weird person (my opinion): "advocating sterilization of the deaf" it then goes on to say "his wife Mabel, a former student of his, was deaf. Together they had children, none of which were deaf" - That is weird "Although this attitude is widely seen as paternalistic and arrogant today, it was fitting for the time" Anyway, did you go to the same school as someone famous?


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                      went to paarl boys' high in paarl (duh), just outside cape town. one of south africa's previous presidents went there too... -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298

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