From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 25 11:14:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F6F37B40C for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.141.174.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.141.174]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8PHx3W14480; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BB0C617.47F180D5@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:59:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: <3BAC3644.1CB0C626@mindspring.com> <3BAD1FAE.2F3D40F5@mindspring.com> <20010923011557.B60374@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <015e01c143c8$c93505a0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> <3BAE400A.9BD2F357@mindspring.com> <3BAE494C.B08C2E05@mindspring.com> <20010924015707.D25695@futuresouth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > [trim trim trim on the cc's] > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:42:52PM -0700, a little birdie told me > that Terry Lambert remarked > > > > Really, it has worked remarkably well for the 225 years it > > has been in power. If you want to get technical, the U.K. > > OK, I just had to jump on the opportunity to show Terry wrong :) > > It hasn't been in power for 225 years. 212, from memory, as the > Constitution was ratified in 1789. For the 13 previous years, it was a > loose and unstructured union of autonomous states, and before 1776 it was > still legally a British colony. It's rather like "the millenium starts on Jan 1 2001"... the U.S. celebrated its bicentenial in 1976. I should have stuck with "200+ years", which is what I had written originally, but later changed to 225 because of the bicentenial. Technically, given the date of the Declration in 1776, I should have said something sifferent for that, but... whatever. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message