Hi Deepblue, I like your picture, I was staying in the JingJang hotel in Shanghai, went to see some agents over there, walked to the Bund? everyday and really had a wonderful time for two weeks. Will go back sometime.

(Snip) Think how many ways Shagsberd / Shakeshaft had of spelling his own surname! Shagsberd / Shakeshaft are not different ways of spelling Shakespeare. -- Through the Valley of Despair they came; an innumerable surge of gross humanity...

A colleague has a letter written in the mid 19th century which appears to say that someone was "all the lun & fun" of the occasion. I see from Brewer's and the Routledge Dictionary of Slang that "lun" was a term for a

The Curse is Over and The Sox are going to win this series..you can just feel it...the yanks are scared...and they should be!! Thank you Tim Wakefield!! Weren't you trolling the Yankees group as a Twins fan a week ago? How'd that work out

? What about David Koresh and his Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas? Was it American terrorism

Issues: "..house, which had cost him and arm and leg. " "..house, which had cost him AN arm and A leg. " "..looked at her daughter..." Suggesting: "looked at his daughter.." "looser" should be: "loser" "..if front of everybody"