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Ltbuell
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 02:40 pm: | 
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"Paul, family is from NE Scotland, Forres. but I was born & raised Cambridge England.
Part of Clan Campbell."
Hello fellow Scotsman.Some day would love to get over there and "dig" into my Scottish history(my youngest of two sisters went over to Scotland and did some "looking" many years ago).See the sights as well as England(got some awefully cool WW2 related museums there).Mingle with the "real" people there.
I really can't stand to see grown ups behave worse than kids...really ruins the atmosphere of the game..and sets a "bad" example for the kids to see.Not a good way to grow up around in my book. |
Tankhead
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 03:30 pm: |
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Analysis: Whether you regard the above as a much-needed dose of realism or an unnecessarily vituperative browbeating, the main thing you need to know is that former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates neither wrote those words nor delivered them in a speech to high school students, or anyone else.
I repeat: Bill Gates did not write it or say it.
As frequently happens when texts are repeatedly copied and forwarded over time, something written by one person has come to be attributed to another. Here, the displaced text is a pared-down version of an op-ed piece by education reformer Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can't Read, Write, or Add. The op-ed was originally published in the San Diego Union-Tribune in September 1996. It began making the email rounds under Bill Gates' name in February 2000, and has continued to do so ever since.
Taken from Snopes.com. Just sayin..... |
Fahren
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 03:37 pm: |
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I heart Snopes. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 04:32 pm: |
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quote:Bill Gates
Knew it was fake at that point. He promised me he would share his fortune with me if I forwarded an email he sent me to everyone in my contacts. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 04:42 pm: |
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No WAY! He made me that same promise, and I'm not splitting my share. You two will have to duke it out. |
Xodot
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 08:19 pm: |
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If you can read this... Thank a Teacher.
If you can read this in English... Thank a Soldier!
And for life and everything else you have... Thank God!!
to which I will add -
"If you are reading this in your home, thank a cop." |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 02:26 am: |
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I'm reading this in my own home & the only people I'm going to thank are me & the mrs for working bloody hard to get it! |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2012 - 10:12 am: |
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But WAIT, there's MORE (this time in Georgia) |
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