Samuel Butler named a part of New Zealand 'Erewhon,' because it is 'Nowhere' spelt backwards.
Okay, you might say, the 'w' and the 'h' have not been translated properly and I tell you that was simply in the interest of phonetics.
The people who live on Erewhon station literally live - nowhere!
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I knew that! I knew that! Oh, what a pity I hadn't read this aforewards!
Same as Dylan Thomas in his poem Under Milkwood invented a Welsh town called Llareggub. Work it out!
Are you in Russia yet Maalie?
Hi K.M.! No I leave at 06.05 from manchester airport Saturday morning. I'll have to be up about 3.00am, lucky I'm having a lift from B-in-L to the airport!
buggerall
:o)
what is an Ovlov?
Someone reversing a Volvo?
ha ha ha !!! yep....
Aha Simon - she is too quick for you !!
seems so!
;-)
I have a riddle!
3 men rent a room @$30.00 for the night.
They retire to the room. At this point the hotel manager realises he has charged them too much and it should have been $25.00
He sends the bell boy up to give them $5.00 change.
The bell boy cannot divide the $5.00 between the 3 men so he decides to give them $3.00 and keep $2.00 for himself.
so that means each amn paid $9.00 each x3 equals $27.00.
If we add the $2.00 the bell boy kept ..that makes $29.00
what happened to the $1.00???
Surely there is no missing dollar as if the belly boy kept $2 then 30-2 = 28 and each chap paid $9.333333333333 etc dollars each.
B.B
Simon, $25 seems very cheap for a room. Are you sure you don't mean UK Pounds Sterling?
Maybe the hotel receipt program forgot the zeroes on the end.
And why did three men rent one room for one night? What were they doing?
I detect runcibility afoot...
TCA: I am aware of this paradox, but it's hard to get my head round it. If you take an individual man (Man A), he coughed up a ten-buck note to put into the kitty. Then the bell boy gave him one back. You could understand his acquiescence that had only parted with 9 bucks. Then repeat for Men B and C.
If I gave you 10 buck and then I got one back I would consider that I had disposed of nine. Wouldn't you?
Anyway, would they really be given a refund if the manager had thought he'd got away with it?
If the manager was so terribly honest that he thought the men wanted their $5 back, why did he trust it to the bellboy and not simply refund them when they checked out?
Exactly. And then he could have given them exactly one dollar and 1.6 recurring cents each.
only if he had enough 3/1/3 cent coins....
when are we getting a new posting? :o)
When something interesting happens in my life!!!!
but it is! what about another hockey injury or sumthin'
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