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| Useless clarification on the billion thing: To Yanks, 'billion' means one thousand times a million (1,000,000,000) -- we use what is commonly referred to as an erroneous system that used multiples of a thousand rather than a million, as was (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | RE: Space Shuttle Costs, Billions, Wordplay, Homely Yankees
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| (...) As we phrase it here, "we're not snobs- we're just better than you." Luis (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In article <179AA48D1741D211821...HQMAIL02>, Tom Pierce <tomp@citrix.com> writes (...) Are you trying to say that Americans speak English? Bob Bryson and Alastair Cook are the only two Americans I have ever heard who can speak English. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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