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Subject: 
Re: Space Shuttle Costs
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:45:04 GMT
Original-From: 
David Rawding - Consultant <rawding@IHATESPAMgene.com>
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Nick,

Cool. I can learn something new everyday.
I didnt mean to offend any brits.
"Ugly American?"  Ouch.  Easy Nick.

BTW, we won the war : )

Dave.

On Dec 15, 10:05am, Nick Taylor wrote:
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Costs
Dear Mr. Rawding - - -
   To _most_ speakers of English 'five billion' does _not_ equal
5,000,000,000.   Comments such as yours are what has given
rise to the "Ugly American" syndrome.
- - - Nick - - -

David Rawding - Consultant wrote:

On Dec 15,  8:52am, Fred Read wrote:
Subject: Space Shuttle Costs
Michael Chu wrote:

does anybody here know how much the space shuttle cost?

Well in excess of 5,000 Million US dollars (if you don't include • the
one
that blew up).

UMMMMM....you mean 5 billion?



[The humour impaired may require a smiley but I don't do • smileys...]
--

If it ain't opinionated, it ain't Rich Teer.

-- End of excerpt from Fred Read


-- End of excerpt from Nick Taylor



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  Re: Space Shuttle Costs
 
Dear Mr. Rawding - - - To _most_ speakers of English 'five billion' does _not_ equal 5,000,000,000. Comments such as yours are what has given rise to the "Ugly American" syndrome. - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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