In article <13*************@corp.supernews.com>,
Phil Kempster <ph**@kempster.infowrote:
dorayme wrote:
In article <23***************************@TEKSAVVY.COM>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cf********@gmail.comwrote:
On 2008-03-09, dorayme wrote:
In article <aP********************@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi >,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tut.fiwrote:
Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:
Removing a random TD from a table without compensating on other rows
almost always buggers the table display across browsers...
... And there is nothing in the odd concept that imples that
the table will be "buggered".
I was shocked that Jonathan should use this concept without
asking permission from us Australians.
Did the Aussies ask permission from the Brits?
C'mon Chris, I don't think you understand how Australian this is.
Perhaps I can help. It is so Australian that the Brits got it
from the Australians through backwards causation.
This seems all Greek to me ;-)
PhilK (sweltering in OZ)
The sort of causation that people are used to, especially
pommies, is either of the instantaneous (up to the speed of
light) variety:
President Bush presses the horn ring on the steering wheel of his
pickup on his farm down Texas way and the horn blares, a steer
jumps out of his way.
or of the forward/future directed kind:
Bush presses a button and a cruise missile with a nuclear bomb
wipes out Tehran several minutes later.
There was an accusation that "bugger" was a Brit word even though
it is used in a particularly famous and pointed manner in
Australia.
To cut a long story short, the grounds for the suggestion that we
owe it to the Brits may be based on these conceptions of
causation. But if something in the future can cause something in
the past, and the Brits using "bugger" is a case of this, then
Australians do not owe any debt to the Brits for it.
My evidence, after much research on this matter suggests that the
Brits and therefore the Yanks, got it from us. But it is too OT
to go into here. Please send $10 (not US at the moment if you
don't mind) for more on this.
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dorayme