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: Household Algebra Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 14:32:58 -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: Fri, 03 May 2024 23:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0128c8be767dea62770005eb69dbc2ac"; logging-data="809048"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+o0OOAgtPjAXKbsWxyRFIB" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oigBlSgQoDnPZs+1mX17NiKUjg0= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240503-4, 5/3/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 2126 On Fri, 3 May 2024 13:48:02 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper" wrote: >On 5/3/24 10:44 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: >> In related news, I recently won a bet that I could name all the >> English/British monarchs of the past thousand years. (It's easier >> than it was at the turn of the century, since there were so many >> between the year 1000 and 1024, whom I no longer need to remember.) > >Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, >Harry, Dick, John, Harry three; >One two three Neds, Richard two, >Harrys four five six, ... then who? >Edwards four five, Dick the bad, >Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad); >Mary, Bessie, James you ken, >Then Charlie, Charlie, James again; >Will and Mary, Anna Gloria, >Georges four, Will four, Victoria; >Edward seven, George and Ted, >George the sixth, now Liz instead. And one more Charlie. -- Qualified immunity = virtual impunity. Tim Merrigan -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com