Re: CHAT: postcodes

Why is it that Americans (and non-English speakers who've learnt American
English) call mobile phones 'cell phones'? What's the 'cell' in question?

Also, would someone do the honor of explaining John's .sig to me?

I now resign to bed; rule no. 1 of eighteenths* is don't post to email lists
afterwards...

*Note: in Australia, given that at 18 you can buy alcohol (buy sigs, not that
I would ever engage in smoking. Crap, now Michelle can buy her own
cigarettes...), get your licence and vote, 18-y.o. parties are Big Things and
*definitely* involve drinking, especially if you've already turned 18.

Which, as always brings me to a tangent. Talking to my friends, who know more
about these things than I do... in the US, it's a crime for someone under age
to be in possession of alcohol *at all*, isn't it? not just to buy the stuff
like in Oz? If the police decided to turn up to a party and there were people
beneath the age of 21 drinking, would people get in trouble?

On Monday 23 September 2002 01:07, John Cowan wrote:
> John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      jcowan@reutershealth.com
> Be yourself.  Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
> no such knowledge exists.  Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
> the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
> James Clark is as perennial as the grass.  --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath

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