Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 10
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 18, 2002, 19:47 |
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At 10:35 am -0500 18/5/02, Peter Clark wrote:
> Apologies to all who expressed great distress after last Saturday
>came and
>went without a poll. 'Twas the ides of May. :)
Eh? The Ides of May are the 15th, which was last *Wednesday*.
Saturday was: ante diem quintum Idus Maias
Ray.
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