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  • Re: MT VOID, 05/10/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 45, Whole Number 2327

    From Paul Dormer@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Mon May 13 11:56:00 2024
    In article <v1qnhs$2q0p3$[email protected]>, [email protected] (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.

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  • From Tim Merrigan@21:1/5 to Dormer on Mon May 13 09:14:13 2024
    On Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56 +0100 (BST), [email protected] (Paul
    Dormer) wrote:

    In article <v1qnhs$2q0p3$[email protected]>, [email protected] >(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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  • From Paul Dormer@21:1/5 to Tim Merrigan on Mon May 13 17:51:00 2024
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    (Tim Merrigan) wrote:

    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.

    Both his parents died in the nineties and were in their eighties.
    Unlikely indeed any of his ancestors are still living.

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