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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: brian h who wrote (1718)	5/21/2000 10:00:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Brian, Never mind writing from left to right. As a Winn, I'd like to lay an official complaint about the alphabet going from A to Z. Being a W, it meant years of being last in line for ice-creams and all sorts of perks, including being last to leave some damn school thing; the Adams, Bakers, Moonies and Ramsey Sus would be out playing while the stupid teacher was still working their way down the alphabetical list. The teachers probably thought they were teaching us good order and how alphabets were good things. They taught me that teachers and others were authoritarian power-abusers with favourites and the value of anarchy. Very rarely, such as being called to the school dental nurse to get mercury put in my teeth [and I now know bloodstream, kidneys and brain], it was an advantage to be last. I used to watch the dental nurse mixing by hand the mercury and silver and not doing a very good job of it. She would mix until she couldn't see too many little balls of mercury running around! There would certainly have been loose mercury left to be swallowed. New Zealand children of the era had mouths full of amalgam. No wonder our economic position rapidly declined along with our brain function. What with enthusiastic use of lead in paint, petrol and most other places, [such as drinking water collection from the corrugated iron rooves of houses], it's amazing the place didn't go to total banana republic status. It's still trying. Watch the $NZ dropping. Tourism here from the USA and Japan is now VERY cheap. Brianh, there is a name for people who can write from right to left and back to front [mirror image]. Can't remember it just now. A few can do it well. Don't Chinese also write from back to front, like the Japanese, meaning from the back of the book to the front? I suppose they would call the back of the book the front, but you know what I mean. No wonder discussions between Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji and Clinton, Lott of Laughs etc go off the rails so easily. They aren't even on the same page. Meanwhile, W people have certain psychological traits as a result of having been trained since school to come last. Mqurice Aabwinn. [just changed my name by deed poll]