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- From: jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley)
- Subject: Bilingual announcement
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.194625.74847@evolving.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:46:25 GMT
- Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
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- Just for fun, I relate a story from a friend of mine. He was in a
- train station in Toronto (I think), and heard the public address
- system say something like: "Ladies and gentlemen, the buffet is
- now open. Mesdames et messieurs, le snackbar est maintenant ouvert."
- --
- Fr. John Woolley (jww@evolving.com); vastly enthusiastic about Augustine,
- Austen, babies, Bach, backgammon, baseball, beer, the Bible, Botticelli, Burke,
- Chesterton, Dante, Dixieland, hardboiled, Hitchcock, Dr Johnson, Latin, Mozart,
- Shakespeare/de Vere, St Teresa, Tolkien, Trollope, Fats Waller, and Washington
-