On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:07:13 -0500, Alan Brand
<alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:04:10 -0400, Ken Butler <ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>>>In message <8qud5317i53nhunhsdcudncv3bll3kt26f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan Brand
>>><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>>
>>>>But I thought you ran a post office, not a bank ...
>>>>
>>>Oh that life were that simple. Scotland loves to be different, so a
>>>Scottish Bank holiday, and the days that banks are not open, are not
the
>>>same thing. That would be far too easy. Why? Because, about ten
years
>>>ago, the Scottish banks decided that it was in their interests to take
>>>the same holidays as the other British banks, so they do, but that does
>>>not mean that the Scottish bank holidays are Scottish Bank holidays.
>>>Glad you asked?
>>
>>Ecstatic. I mean, it's im****tant to know this kind of thing.
>
>While I'm perfectly happy to cram more useless information into my
>forgettery, I'm nowhere near as pleased as Ken is.
>
>>So does that mean that Scottish post offices close on Scottish bank
>>holidays, or on some other list of days of their own devising?
>>
>>Ken, who discovered that Reykjavik buses run on Icelandic bank holidays,
>>just not early in the morning.
>
>Good boys aren't wandering around strange towns in the early hours.
Ken, what ARE you doing after I fall asleep at 9pm?
>--
>AlanB, off-day girl
I thought that was your usual state of being.
AmyK, not too many days off.
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