Mon, 2006-06-12 09:21
FOR SALE...
Complete set of leather bound Encyclopaedia Britannica in mint condition. Cost nearly £2,000 to collect.
Bargain at £1,000
Telephone 020 5436720
Reason for sale: Recently married and the wife knows absolutely everything.
Mon, 2006-06-12 10:24
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*ducks out of line of fire*
Mon, 2006-06-12 10:34
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Seems like a perfectly good reason to me
They have to try to rescue something from his imprudent, nay profligate, spending in the past.
Mon, 2006-06-12 20:39
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:?:
Are we to congratulate you on recent nuptials, sympathize with you on having a know-it-all esposa or mourn with you the loss of your Encyclopædia Britannica, a fine example of American publishing?
confused :?,
gary
Mon, 2006-06-12 22:26
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It's humour. The whole post is humour 
...maybe it's too British!
Mon, 2006-06-12 23:02
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Quote:
a fine example of American publishing
So was that, I think. :?
I now await the whole history of the publishing house - Websters or Merriam or the ultimate-hyphenated is it?
Tue, 2006-06-13 05:12
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It has been published in Chicago since the 1920s, which strikes me as humorous.
cheers,
gary
Tue, 2006-06-13 06:22
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Quote:
The Encyclopædia Britannica first came to the United States in the form of a pirated edition printed in Philadelphia in 1790 by Thomas Dobson.
That sounds about right