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Re: My new homepage URL

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, July 3, 2000, 17:06
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Danny Wier wrote:

> >Hmm...are you congratulating yourself, our your website's viewers? > > I thought that meant "good luck"...
Literally, yes, but in context the meaning is "congratulations". You are not wishing someone good luck, but rather alluding to the good luck they evidently already have. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know