Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Merrigan Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/10/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 45, Whole Number 2327 Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 09:14:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 18:14:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b259e0f080ffda1d6417bbfd7dd4b3fa"; logging-data="3745800"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18R1QB+4w67iLYHC3AyzSAj" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:faHIBN45UyrrGYVvYMvGHIev2A8= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240513-4, 5/13/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 2265 On Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote: >In article , evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com >(Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote: > >> >> In response to Evelyn's comments on word use and mis-use in the >> 05/03/24 issue of the MT VOID, Paul Dormer writes: >> >> I remember, some years ago, seeing a description of a forthcoming >> TV programme. It was about someone setting up a company to >> provide office lunches. The person was described as an ancestor >> of the Earl of Sandwich. [-pd] > >Incidentally, a follow-up is a letter in The Guardian a while back from >someone complaining that British Summer Time (daylight saving) starts end >of March, just after the solstice but it ends at the end of October, a >month after the solstice. Of course, they meant equinox, not solstice. I note, that while unlikely, it is possible for there to be a living ancestor of the current Earl of Sandwich, if his mother or one or more of her ancestors is living. -- Qualified immunity = virtual impunity. Tim Merrigan -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com