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RE: (Re: Look before posting) (Re: Think before replying)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'you need a licence to import hippos into hong kong \(http://www.customs.gov.hk/eng/advice_advice_e.html\)'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:40:56 +0100
- Subject: RE: (Re: Look before posting) (Re: Think before replying)
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 24 August 2006 20:14, One Angry User wrote:
> On a hot Thursday, the 24th day of August, 2006, Dave Korn's computer
> deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
>
>> On 24 August 2006 14:00, George wrote:
>>
>>> Off the top of my head the only other countries I can think of are
>>> Singapore and Malaysia, Burma, Cyprus, Jamaica, The Countries Formerly
>>> Known as Rhodesia, and Nigeria. Kenya, I think gained independence
>>> after 1947. Britain also gave up rule of Palestine around that time
>>> after the locals started blowing up their buildings.
>>
>> http://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/20century.htm
>>
>> 1962: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, ... and Western Samoa 1964: ... Malta
>> 1970: Fiji and Tonga
>> 1973: Bahamas
>> 1976: Seychelles
>> 1978: Dominica
>> 1979: Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
>
> Are there really hippos in those countries?
Clealy, sir, hace mjade an off-topic poast :)
>> 1997: Hong Kong
>
> There is probably one in the Hong Kong zoo...
http://tinyurl.com/harlw
*sip* <g>
cheers,
DaveK
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