From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:20 Dave Frightens Me writes: > I don't think alcohol is good for chronic shyness ... In many cases, alcohol + chronic shyness => alcoholism. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:21 The Reid writes: > my point is that 50% of people who get a life threatening cancer > will not be saved by being rich, they will not be saved by > medicine. Except that this is completely untrue. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:22 Carole Allen writes: > Pancreatic cancer for one. By the time symptoms surface and diagnosis > is made, it is usually too far advanced to arrest regardless of how > much money you have. You can be gone in 1-3 months in many cases. I > have personally known several people who died of it; they were > economically comfortable and certainly could afford the best medical > care, but it is a relentlessly nasty form of cancer. It's also an exception to the rule in this respect. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:23 Martin writes: > Not many men get pregnant. Women aren't usually pregnant, either. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Jul 2006 02:23
Carole Allen writes: > How can you determine from what someone has written if that person > (someone otherwise unknown to you) is a non-native speaker or writer > of English? Easily, if his writing is poor. Not at all, if his writing is perfect. > Stanislas' written English is of better quality than > some of the stuff I receive from highly educated Americans born and > bred in the States. The errors, however, are different and characteristic for his native language. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |