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Folks, Daschund is clearly just trying to wind you up, but if you must respond to his meanderings, please don't quote them in their entirety in your reply, as it makes the thread even more unreadable than it might otherwise be.

Is my intro being screened? Yes, the first post by any now forum member won;'t appear until it has been checked by a moderator. Only the first - once you've leapt that fence, all your subsequent posts appear without delay. If you saw the queue of first post awaiting moderation, you'd appreciate why...

Hello guys im brand new here, i was searching topics when i came along this forum and thought id join in order to share what i have learned. im very young but love subjects such as computers art and metaphysics. i spend my days drawing and meditating , i have a small mental ilness that i developed ...

Herzlich willkommen!

I only just noticed this thread. Welcome back thedoc! Very glad to hear you are on the mend.

Hi Jeff, welcome to the forum! Glad you like the mag.

bahman wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:50 pm

Neutron? What you are talking about?

Possibly it's a typo and gaffo meant to say neutrinos?

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A_Seagull wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:13 am

Interesting that the article was written some 27 years ago. I wonder how the author would view political correctness now. It certainly hasn't gone away. If anything it has become more entrenched and become mainstream normality.

I'll ask him, if you like.

I can remove threads, and sometimes have. I'm pretty sure I didn't delete that one, though. If I had, that action would probably show up anyway in the log that AMod consulted. (At least, I think it would - not 100% certain about that). Like AMod says, there will probably be a new moderator/ass-kicke...

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about ...

Hi Luxin, and welcome!

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about a...

From memory, Bill Bryson in his book "Mother Tongue" speculates that Yankees is derived from the Dutch "Jan Kees" meaning "John Cheese", apparently the name of a sort of stock character in Dutch culture. If correct, this would mean that the word Yankees dates back to the time of the Dutch colonies i...