On Sat, 26 May 2007 08:31:54 -0400, Amy Kwok
<amy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 May 2007 00:25:09 -0400, kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
>>>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:07:15 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>Tuesday? AND Monday, I suppose? Oh well, I don't care if the
weather
>>>>>goes haywire this weekend, as it is not a bank/public holiday in the
>>>>>land of the heathen.
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>
>>Not as strange as why Brits celebrate the Queen's birthday in June???
>>Not sunny enough in April?
>
>Not as strange as why Merkans go/carry on about...never mind.
No, what?
>Not enough crap in the world?
KS
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