Michael Weholt @24: This sort of thing, maybe?
Terry Karney @766:
(BTW, does anyone know how to make gmail show headers; all I got was some address line info, which was no real help in tracking down)
It's well-hidden, but what you're looking for is "Show Original" in the arrow dropdown next to the "Reply" button.
Steve C. @8 : 25th January 2003, apparently. I can only assume that either the thread title's been retconned since, or Teresa was remarkably prescient (Open Thread 2 wasn't until July 2003).
Lois Fundis @82: The really interesting bit of Vice-Presidential trivia relating to this is that there was one Veep who served two consecutive terms, but under two different Presidents.
By my understanding, there have been two.
PNH @127: Wikipedia appears to be fully supplied with lower-case letters, and in fact uses them on a regular basis.
Not as obvious a case as you might think; technical limitations of the back-end software Wikipedia uses make it awkward for an article title to start with a lower-case letter, and the current hacky workaround to make it possible was only implemented a year or so ago. So, while it shouldn't be an issue any longer, there's a strong legacy influence on style guides and policy.
Mary Gentle's 1610: A Sundial in a Grave is mostly set in England, though also France and Japan. I believe that Gentle would claim that it's actually science fiction rather than fantasy; it's just that the science in question is contemporary Hermetic natural philosophy rather than ours.
The first usage of 'edress' on Usenet appears to be September 1991. 'e-dress' is somewhat earlier, July 1987.
Quick random question - can any Terry Pratchett fans help me out with something? In one of his earlier books, there's a reference to a number of other Discworld-style worlds existing - one of which is a Norse world boundaried by an enormous wolf, who grips his tail in his teeth.
I don't have my copy to hand, but I'm fairly certain this is from near the end of the first, The Colour of Magic, when Tethis the sea-troll is describing how he fell to the Discworld.
Tangentially related, a variant of the boardgame "The Settlers of Catan" was recently published, called The Settlers of Zarahemla.
DM Sherwood: England and Wales's death penalty for piracy on the high seas (and for treason) was abolished by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. (It had been abolished in Scottish law much earlier.)
Tom: To get to the thread from "Recent Comments" when Teresa has made the title of a post a link, click on the commenter's name, not the title.
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