Charles Riggs As RTE Online, an Irish new service, reported: The pop star Michael Jackson is to stand trial in the United States on child abuse charges. A federal grand jury in California has decided that there is enough evidence to proceed with the prosecution. The 45- ... Apr 23 2004 10:29:19 | |
Dr Robin Bignall Robin gave me instructions on how to use his computer, I hope they work. He slipped and fell on some wet steps as he was meeting me at the station tonight and hit himself in the stomach on the end of the handrail. He started bleeding from his ... Jan 12 2004 00:00:15 | |
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward Saw this interesting spelling on the website of a young black person: "Dis part ent bin updated 4 ages ,if urnt up her jus chillax,ill do it .. 1 day mkay this iz relli old now but ima do mre stuff to it.. mebbe " I think kids spell like this in ... Mar 18 2005 17:45:38 | |
Raymond S. Wise There was a controversy involving the Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus at www.m-w.com . Objections were made to the word "pederast" turning up as a result of a search for "homosexual." Merriam-Webster subsequently removed "homosexual" from the ... Apr 25 2004 22:31:13 | |
Anonymous I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this question, but I need help. (I'd rather make a fool of myself here than on my webpage). I've got a website with book reviews. Some are written by a professional on the subject, and I want to call ... Feb 19 2005 19:07:08 | |
Adam Funk From the "People's Network Acceptable Use Policy" (2002): > You are solely responsible for maintaining your file storage > space. This space is fixed at 5 Mb and cannot be increased. > Your file store will be deleted if it is not used for ... Feb 15 2007 14:58:08 | |
David Picton I noticed a real schoolboy howler on the BBC News website earlier today. A house was to be 'raised' to the ground. Someone placed too much reliance on spellcheckers, it seems. But it was soon corrected to 'razed'. What's unusual here is that the ... Apr 03 2004 15:44:38 | |
iwasaki I thought it might be a good idea to draw my family tree before everyone who knows who whose what is dies. I was advised that Mormons have a good program for making a family tree so I checked their website. To download the program, it is required ... Aug 28 2004 16:19:17 | |
Anonymous From Bloomberg: McDonalds, the world's largest hamburger restaurant (sic.) chain, said it wanted the definition for "McJob" removed from the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. The definition of McJob as "low-paying and dead-end work" should ... Nov 10 2003 04:40:01 | |
JC Dill I'm looking for a website with statistics or a poll(1) that asks "what city is The City" and which offers choices including London, San Francisco, and New York City. Does anyone here know of such a site? Thanks! jc (1) Similar to this, but including ... Jul 31 2004 04:41:06 | |
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