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In article <jcCdnSw2QKYvDwDYnZ2dnUVZ_uKknZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Cathy F." <clfr@adelphiadot.net> wrote:
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> " dbu," <repubs@waitfor08.com> wrote in message
> news:repubs-051A00.16145304012007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...[color=green]
> > In article <1167942640snz@deltrak.demon.co.uk>,
> > [email]ames@deltrak.demon.co.uk[/email] (Andrew Stephenson) wrote:
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> >> Maybe one of our mathematically minded OTers can help me: this is
> >> the 110th Congress; and the whole USian circus got rolling around
> >> 1776 ISTR; and this is 2006/7; and each modern Congress lasts two
> >> years. Where are the missing ones? Were they extra-longlasting?
> >> Maybe all of that pork-barrel fudging squiffed somebody's maths?[/color]
> >
> > Let's see, when did we whip the British? Let's us start with that.[/color]
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> Nice way (said facetiously) to address the British posters...
>
> FF a bit from the end of the Revolutionary War. Starting up a country's
> gov't. took a little time, even for that illustrious batch of Founding
> Fathers.
>
> Cathy
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Oh hell, don't pamper the Brits, they can jolly well take a little ribbin
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