It's Zoot!

Roger Houston said:

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Vapour" is the proper spelling used by the millions of English
speakers throughout the world. Your spelling may be proper within your
borders but realise that you look ignorant or lazy when you post in a
global forum

It's "Realize", Hoser.

Spelling tends to be eclectic in Canada 🙂 realise - realize same
thing

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Wonder what the internet would look like if the Canucks ran it?

Roger Houston said:

"Zoot Katz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Vapour" is the proper spelling used by the millions of English
speakers throughout the world. Your spelling may be proper within your
borders but realise that you look ignorant or lazy when you post in a
global forum

It's "Realize", Hoser.

Wonder what the internet would look like if the Canucks ran it?

Probably much politer, for many Canadians though, both the British and
American spellings are considered interchangable, then again, you get
folks like me, who tend to use British spellings, after all, the Brits
invented the mess that we call then English Language, so I would assume
they have an idea on how words in it, should be spelled.

W

"The Wogster" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Probably much politer, for many Canadians though, both the British and
American spellings are considered interchangable, then again, you get
folks like me, who tend to use British spellings, after all, the Brits
invented the mess that we call then English Language, so I would assume
they have an idea on how words in it, should be spelled.

As well as how commas in it, should be misused.

But we digress.

In article <[email hidden]>,

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Ryan Cousineau said:

Peak Oil is a concept that, scientific validity left aside, has been
enthusiastically embraced by political entities on the left. Meanwhile,
the Mises Institute is the one publishing articles under the title "The
Myth of 'Peak Oil.'"

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1717
note: references to the sweet-sour spread have nothing to do with ethnic
cuisine.

Strange. There is nothing in this article "The Myth of 'Peak Oil'"
that claims or indicates in any way that the phenomenon of
'Peak Oil' is a myth. Except the title, of course.

Robert

True enough. The article is effectively about myths surrounding the
potential effects of peak oil, which are of more interest to a
(classical) liberal economics institute.

If you want more on the subject of abiotic oil, this Wired article is
probably a good start:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.html

I am no expert, and I'm a pretty timid bettor. But if I had to bet, I'd
probably lay my money on abiotic oil versus dino juice.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

Roger Houston said:

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Cor Blimey!
Is a man not allowed to spell like a limey?

Or a Kiwi, maybe? Well, certainly. I was just having a [censored], roight?

Perhaps, though I don't know how good a bird which can't fly, only comes
out at night, has its nostrils at the end of its beak and is always poking
its nose into things can spell.

Peter

--
No Microsoft involved. Certified virus free --

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:09:43 -0500, The Wogster <[email hidden]>

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for many Canadians though, both the British and
American spellings are considered interchangable,

uhhh, there does exist The Oxford Dictionary of Canadian English
which includes a definition for "[censored] disturber" as well as the usual
extraneous "U"s to satisfy the French and the use of "S" instead of
zed just to [censored]-off the yankz.

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then again, you get
folks like me, who tend to use British spellings, after all, the Brits
invented the mess that we call then English Language, so I would assume
they have an idea on how words in it, should be spelled.

The English language contains many words adopted from Old French.
French was long considered the international language and the language
of diplomacy.

My news reader software has a selection of downloadable dictionaries
for its speel chucker. I use International English because it's more
widely understood than American English which appears to have been
compiled by advertising copy writers.

There is a program, including a Canadian English dictionary, called
"Spell Check Anywhere" that operates in any Windoze program including
use in online forums. It's been cracked so you can test it longer than
the seven daze the developer gives ewe.

what really pix my titz is the asswipes who cant punctuate or find the
[censored] shift key they four shore aint all ee cummings
--
zk

Roger Houston said:

"The Wogster" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Probably much politer, for many Canadians though, both the British and
American spellings are considered interchangable, then again, you get
folks like me, who tend to use British spellings, after all, the Brits
invented the mess that we call then English Language, so I would assume
they have an idea on how words in it, should be spelled.

As well as how commas in it, should be misused.

But we digress.

That's what happens, when you post late at night. I am a morning person.

W

Peter Keller said:

Roger Houston said:

"Peter Keller" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Cor Blimey!
Is a man not allowed to spell like a limey?

Or a Kiwi, maybe? Well, certainly. I was just having a [censored], roight?

Perhaps, though I don't know how good a bird which can't fly, only comes
out at night, has its nostrils at the end of its beak and is always poking
its nose into things can spell.

That could almost describe my old boss.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

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Zoot Katz said:

"Peak Oil" is possibly a scam to keep prices high.

The US reached its production peak in 1970. If oil
is a renewable resource, how come we can't even
produce as much domestically as we did in the 1960s,
when the US was one of the world's leading EXporters
of oil? Why can't the Russians, who actually believe the
primordial theory of oil's origin, produce as much today
as they did twenty years ago? Why does oil production
in the US and Russia decline every year?

This is all about economics. My mom did accounting/treasury work for an
oil company for nearly 20 years. Over that time, the quality of the
available oil changed. It costs more money to refine North American oil
into its usable components than it does to transport higher-quality oil
across an ocean and refine it. As the political situation changes and
the costs for transportation increase, the extra expense of refining
the "cruder" crude oil from the North America will drop.

We can also blame the increased costs of labor for a significant
portion of our problems. Why else would we be importing somewhere
around 80% of our goods - most of which we produced domestically at one
time (think steel, agriculture, forest products, electronics, clothing,
nick-nacks and whatnots). Dang Americans are just too greedy for their
own good!

-Buck