Hi one and all I heard two natives yaking in the pub last night.................... Gawdon Bennet! His wife was a swinging door, a right horse and cart always takin' Andy Farly getting Al Caponed an' runnin' round rippin' Billy pipers

MrPedantic wrote: Even with millions of suns and billions of planets, there's no guarantee of simultaneity. Our various heydays may be millions of years apart. We may even be ahead of the pack. Then again, we may not recognize the other

TeacherBrian wrote: "Look! We have made self-replicating material, we have made life!"...but if they do, it will clearly prove that life actually needs a maker, thus defeating the contention that it all happens by chance and accident.

Our sun is just one in a galaxy of a thousand billion suns. Our galaxy, known affectionally as the "Milky Way" is only one of one hundred billion galaxies that populate the universe. The number of planets in the universe runs into the trillions.

Hi Robin, 'C' is not my language of choice. Post your questions anyway. One of the advantages of a forum is that one is never alone, that which we do not know could be answered by others. Lionel

Hi one and all Check this out, what do you think? Have the sound on. http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv Lionel

Anonymous wrote: Hello everybody, I have a little problem with the sentence below. Where should " for the past three semesters " stand? I would have done it at the end of the sentence. Many thanks in advance!! ... I am a twenty- four year old

Hi one and all, I say "Merry Christmas" The French say "Joyeux Noël" How do YOU say it? Lionel

Insider wrote: Lionel, I am applying for several student exchange programs, which I hope to be successful at least for one of them. Wish me good luck! (This is not actually only to Lionel. ) Thank you! Greeting from Paris to

Hi there its his hers ours yours.....................are possessive pronouns and have no apostrophe, so your example is correct. Possession An apostrophe goes after the owner's name to show something belongs to him/her. If singular