To quote the words of a 13-year-old girl down in Georgia when I was explaining some of our differences in terminology:

"Gee, I thought y'all spoke English over there!" [Linked Image]

Oh, and gaol = jail. [Linked Image]

I've not caught much news lately -- I only just found out yesterday that Ronnie Barker passed away a couple of weeks ago.

The consequences of traveling back in time and changing something has always fascinated me. I remember reading a short story years ago about a futuristic outfit which set itself up as "Time Travel Safaris Inc." Somehow they'd constructed elevated walkways on pre-historic earth, but at one point somebody accidentally steps off the walkway and crushes a butterfly.

Upon returning to their present-day, the loss of that one butterfly millions of years earlier had so affected the course of history that their present had been changed considerably.




[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 10-18-2005).]