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To: Lane3 who wrote (230410)	12/5/2007 7:58:24 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793843

I have no idea why you characterize my calm, logical explanation of things you admit not to understand as being "exercised". If you didn't want learn, why did you pop in?

To: Lane3 who wrote (230410)	12/5/2007 8:11:03 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

3 Famous Commas 1. THE FATAL COMMA Czarina Maria Fyodorovna once saved the life of a man by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by her husband, Alexander III, which exiled a criminal to imprisonment and death in Siberia. On the bottom of the warrant the czar had written: `Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.' The czarina changed the punctuation so that her husband's instructions read: `Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.' The man was set free. 2. THE BLASPHEMOUS COMMA In several editions of the King James Bible, Luke 23:32 is changed entirely by the absence of a comma. In the passage that describes the other men crucified with Christ, the erroneous editions read: `And there were also two other malefactors.' Instead of counting Christ as a malefactor, the passage should read: `And there were also two other, malefactors.' 3. THE MILLION-DOLLAR COMMA The US government lost at least a million dollars through the slip of a comma. In the tariff act passed on June 6, 1872, a list of duty-free items included: `Fruit plants, tropical and semitropical'. A government clerk accidentally altered the line to read: `Fruit, plants tropical and semitropical'. Importers successfully contended that the passage, as written, exempted all tropical and semitropical plants from duty fees. This cost the US a fortune until May 9, 1874, when the passage was amended to plug the hole. canongate.net

To: Lane3 who wrote (230410)	12/5/2007 8:15:34 AM
From: Hoa Hao	Respond to of 793843

"Food, for example, is a good reason for using guns. People still feed themselves via guns and protect their livestock with guns." I can agree with this statement. "Food is a much better and more basis reason for guns than the unlikely chance that one will be called to serve in a militia or defend oneself against someone going postal." Depends where you live. I resided in the Washington DC area during the crack wars when Mayor Barely, er... Barry held sway. Not much to shoot and eat there, but self defense was another story. I packed heat illegally there and didn't think twice about it.