Re: [Leica] OFF TOPIC Re: have I left the Lug?

["793582" <793582@idmail.com>]

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From: Roger Beamon <roger@beamon.org>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:01 PM
Subject: [Leica] OFF TOPIC Re: have I left the Lug?


On 13 May 99, 793582 wrote, at least in part:

> >Leon,

> >>go forth (into "LUG-space"?) in a spirit of polite, positive and
> >>rational discourse!

> >Do you know the meaning of the words:  "fat chance"  ???   <gr>

> If a slim chance is indicative of long odds, I would assume that a fat
> chance is indicative of short odds or even possibly of an odds on
> chance..!

Great! Here's a guy (girl?) with numbers for a name pointing out
the lack of logic and continuity in the English language. Problem is
that he/she/it is correct!

Wadaya say, Dick, shall we ask our British cousins to explain, to
our satisfaction, the derivation of their term, "Public School"?
They sure seem private to me.

Common language...fat chance!
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.....seems simple enough. Their intake is from members of the public so why
call them anything other than public schools? There's nothing private about
them at all. The location of some of the more publically visible schools are
found in places such as Winchester, Rugby, Uppingham, Oundle, Eton,
Cheltenham, and Epsom all places of public virtue known for many pleasures
of the common man from horse racing to worshipping in one the finest houses
of prayer in the world to snooping on your neighbour. Prime Minister Tony
Blair, noted socialist and playing field leveller, enjoyed a superior public
school education at Fettes College in Scotland and who better an example to
promote the virtues of the public good? How can all of this possibly be
private? Like all public schools everywhere, whether they be in Britian or
the US or elsewhere, the taxpayer meets the cost of services rendered.  I
just don't understand what possible confusion there can be in comparing
public schools on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
........

ps: Roger Beamon ......... didn't someone with that name make an astounding
leap of close to thirty feet in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympic
Games?