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Re: CHAT: postcodes

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 17:32
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I find it funny that the expression "Corps Diplomatique" is used about > universally. A remnant of the times when French was the official diplomatic > language? :))
Indeed.
> Strange that front plates are not mandatory. It mustn't help the job of > policemen trying to find the responsible of a car accident who flew away.=
That's the view of the states that require them. But of course comity requires that cars from other states have to respect only the rules of the issuing state, not the state they happen to be in now. -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All jcowan@reutershealth.com she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. _Ulysses_, "Oxen"