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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/10/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 45, Whole Number 2327
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 09:14:13 -0700
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On Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56 +0100 (BST), prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul
Dormer) wrote:

>In article <v1qnhs$2q0p3$1@dont-email.me>, 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.
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Tim Merrigan

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