tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post9115355968860838686..comments2024-03-05T17:55:58.806+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: Happy St George's DayKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-68544391747896883222007-04-25T23:24:00.000+01:002007-04-25T23:24:00.000+01:00Darn - blogger's posting process, having insisted ...Darn - blogger's posting process, having insisted several times that I entered the word verification incorrectly (which I didn't), then went into no verification mode and ultimately multiple posted.<BR/>My apologies for that - the message is not worthy of multiple posts ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-84404292602339787392007-04-25T23:21:00.000+01:002007-04-25T23:21:00.000+01:00Apparently St. George, whoever he was, was never a...Apparently St. George, whoever he was, was never anywhere near these isles and it's all a papist ruse to retain influence over the non-catholics.<BR/><BR/>Anyway - the lists:<BR/><BR/>Ken's;<BR/><BR/>See where you are coming from but I'm not entirely sure the direction is all positive. Serious doubts about the last part of number 5.<BR/><BR/>Alan G's;<BR/><BR/>I rather suspect that most of the world wound not understand or have experienced any of the list except the result of Mr. Berners-Lee (although we all know that Albert Gore really invented the inter-web-net and therefore should suspect that Berners-Lee may be guilty of identity theft ...)<BR/><BR/>cramerj's list of negatives seems accurate but, again, I'm not sure that many of them have taken off world wide. (Nor that the last one is anything to be proud of come to think of it! ;-) )<BR/><BR/>I have some sympathy for anon's point. Typical of the US to have a solution in need of a problem and then flip it to become a problem in need of a solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-87894211189516307412007-04-25T23:20:00.000+01:002007-04-25T23:20:00.000+01:00Apparently St. George, whoever he was, was never a...Apparently St. George, whoever he was, was never anywhere near these isles and it's all a papist ruse to retain influence over the non-catholics.<BR/><BR/>Anyway - the lists:<BR/><BR/>Ken's;<BR/><BR/>See where you are coming from but I'm not entirely sure the direction is all positive. Serious doubts about the last part of number 5.<BR/><BR/>Alan G's;<BR/><BR/>I rather suspect that most of the world wound not understand or have experienced any of the list except the result of Mr. Berners-Lee (although we all know that Albert Gore really invented the inter-web-net and therefore should suspect that Berners-Lee may be guilty of identity theft ...)<BR/><BR/>cramerj's list of negatives seems accurate but, again, I'm not sure that many of them have taken off world wide. (Nor that the last one is anything to be proud of come to think of it! ;-) )<BR/><BR/>I have some sympathy for anon's point. Typical of the US to have a solution in need of a problem and then flip it to become a problem in need of a solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-85940738317781739072007-04-25T08:52:00.000+01:002007-04-25T08:52:00.000+01:00Alan; sorry to be peadntic, but Berners-Lee didn't...Alan; sorry to be peadntic, but Berners-Lee didn't invent the internet - that was the Americans (specifically ARPA).<BR/><BR/>What Berners-Lee did do was make the thing easy to use by coming up with the web interface. Prior to that you actually had to know something existed and where it was otherwise you couldn't get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-56976192403693940892007-04-25T06:55:00.000+01:002007-04-25T06:55:00.000+01:00And the English invented tolerance :- for long que...And the English invented tolerance :- for long queues (also invented by the English)<BR/>tolerance for pushy foreigners.<BR/> " for bad teeth.<BR/> " politicians (none assasinated for ages)<BR/> etc.malpashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03465468581504191466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-60401356057218426722007-04-23T18:50:00.000+01:002007-04-23T18:50:00.000+01:00Ken,I'd like to add the following items to your li...Ken,<BR/><BR/>I'd like to add the following items to your list:<BR/><BR/>- Roast Beef with Yorkshire pudding.<BR/><BR/>- Some of the finest ales in the world (Fullers ESB, Worthington White Shield, Theakston's Old Peculiar etc etc).<BR/><BR/>- Stilton cheese<BR/><BR/>- Fine classical music (Vaughn Williams, Elgar, Holst)<BR/><BR/>...and it was an Englishman (Tim Berners-Lee) who invented the Internet.<BR/><BR/>Hurray for the English!<BR/><BR/>Happy St Georges Day!<BR/><BR/>Alan GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com