Yep, Sohpie's on PeoplesForum too, Penny. She's a lawyer up there.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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meara - Jan 10, 2003 9:36:19 pm PST #1269 of 9843
Fiona - Jan 11, 2003 1:45:01 am PST #1270 of 9843
Um, can anyone tell me about the books I read years ago, about a thief who was very charismatic and said "thicky" and stuff like that? He was some kind of English.
Jesse - what time period were the books set? There's Raffles, but he was very early 20th Century. Any other clues?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 11, 2003 2:51:26 am PST #1271 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
She's the "younger female relative of distance equal to or greater than niece" of the moon. Unless she's just mis-typed "Em-Chau" of course.
Huh. Another beautiful fiction spoiled by an ugly truth. Given that I live in Watford and see the moon maybe once a month if I'm lucky, however, what I have may be more accurate. And Em-Chau is altogether too close to my real name. Ah well.
Jesse - Jan 11, 2003 9:01:40 am PST #1272 of 9843
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - what time period were the books set? There's Raffles, but he was very early 20th Century. Any other clues?
Hee! I can't believe anyone picked this up! I think it was kind of contemporary, maybe mid 20th C? Really, I think if I asked my parents, they'd know who I was talking about, but I keep forgetting.
Deena - Jan 11, 2003 9:17:00 am PST #1273 of 9843
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Jesse, you should ask in the lit thread. Someone there will know. They're kind of scary that way.
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2003 6:04:47 pm PST #1274 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Entirely random question: why are public schools in the UK called "public"? I'm reading something that's comparing the educational systems in the UK and the US, and it keeps having to specify whether it means the American meaning of "public" or the British one, so now I'm getting curious about how the UK and US ended up with two such contradictory meanings for the same term.
CaBil - Jan 11, 2003 6:06:56 pm PST #1275 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Because British public schools aren't public, they are private, I believe...
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 11, 2003 6:09:27 pm PST #1276 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Because UK public schools are open for anyone who want to pay for them, I believe, was the logic?
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2003 6:10:33 pm PST #1277 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Because British public schools aren't public, they are private, I believe...
Which is my question. Why are they called "public"? What were they being differentiated from?
CaBil - Jan 11, 2003 6:13:40 pm PST #1278 of 9843
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
As comparision to US public schools, which were publically funded