Dear followers of Eau de Vie, Being a Wednesday: Two gentlemen, both hard of hearing and strangers to each other, were about to ride the London Underground. One of them, peering at the station they were entering, said, "Pardon me, sir, but is this Wembley?" "No," said the other, "Thursday." "No, thank you," said the first. "I've already had my little drink." Time for the hound to take me to see men who want to see him, too!:-)) Best, Mikey.

Dear All, I ponder that Heinrich forgot that many things come in threes, except when hoped for as in multiplied by seven. Yours, Mikey. "Good Fortune" by Heinrich Heine. Translated by Louis Untermeyer Good fortune is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone. But Madam Sorrow scorns all this; She shows no eagerness for flitting, But with a long and fervent kiss Sits by your bed -- and brings her knitting.

Think I relate with no's 19 and 20 - especially 20 !!!!! Maggie Searching for: KENT: Bicker, Miller, Spratt, Marsh NOTTS: Bicker

Sent it on to all my friends and relatives! Jean in Nova Scotia HENSHALL Bostock, Byley, CHS, Sutton Coldfield, Alton, Ont Canada GLEAVE Bostock, Byley HADFIELD Hazel Grove, Bredbury CHS, Tyldesley, Manchester, LAN DAVIS or DAVIES Manchester, LAN to USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikey." <painter@onetel.net.uk> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:55 PM Subject: [NTH-ENG] Fw: Into the 21st Century > Dear all, > > Thanks to this list I relate to 21. > > Regards, > > Mikey. > > > SIGNS THAT YOU'VE REALLY ENTERED THE 21st CENTURY IN THE USA. > > 1 You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. > > 2 You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three > > 3 You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He > e-mails you back from his bedroom "What's for dinner"? > > 4 Your daughter sells Girl Guide Cookies via her web site. > > 5 You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa but you > haven't spoken with your next door neighbour yet this year. > > 6 You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it > contains Echinacea > > 7 You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant > > 8 Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a > JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver. > > 9 You pull up in yor own driveway and use your cell plhone to see if > anyone is home > > 10 Every commercial on television has web-site address at the bottom of > the screen > > 11 You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells > for half the price you paid. > > 12 The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make > a purchase is foreign to you. > > 13 Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of > the back seat of your car. > > 14 Your reaon for not staying in touch with family is that they do not > have e-mail addresses. > > 15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow. > > 16 Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet > > 17 Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-It notes. > > 18 You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person > > 19 You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls > > 20 You turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just > pulled the plug on a loved one. > > 21 You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee > > 22 You wake up at 4 a.m. to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on > your way back to bed > > 23 You start tilting your head sideways to smile :-) > > 24 You're reading this. > > 25 Even worse, you're going to forward it to someone else! > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > There is a map showing the areas and Counties which this list covers highlighted in red here, > http://www.genealogy45.fsnet.co.uk/ > >

Hi Penny, We had slow mail up until today - message in our local paper and from my ISP was that there was problem with a cable just off the coast off Singapore - they think it was an undersea earthquake - I think it was just mother nature telling us all that it doesn't matter how smart we think we are with our computers and all SHE can just throw a better show than we can!! I haven't had too much of a problem but my ISP uses a couple of backup companies but I have seen lots of complaints on the net. I haven't been contributing to the list much in the last few days - lots of things - occasionally my husband insists I send some invoices out as we need to eat and pay the telephone bill!! Picky isn't he ? But I manage to catch up with reading all the mail late at night - Here in Australia I get your mail when you are all sleeping - not being a very good sleeper myself (trying to hold off the sleeping pills as long as I can) I get to read all the threads - Anyway this was supposed to be a short note but I am afraid I am as bad as Maggie - got diarrhea of the mouth! cheers Rosa

Dear all, Government interference! What I wonder would that be? Do you in the USA or they now have " Colours Imbedded"!:-)) Who is at risk; and, firearms wernt even mentioned!! 'Hoover' Vacuum obviously filled; eh? Bushed or should it be Am bushed next!! Is this lady in hand? Regards, Mikey. Statement from Janet Reno, Attny. General of the United States during an Interview on CBS "60 Minutes" on June 26, 1999. "A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools for their children; who has accumulated survival foods and has strong belief in the Second Amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may qualify a person as a cultist but certainly more than one of these would cause us to look at this person as a threat and his family as being in a risk situation that qualifies for government interference." -Janet Reno,

Dear Glenda, Thanks for the reminder; I remain thankfully: Yours, Mkey. ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenda R. Wilson <wrwgrw@earthlink.net> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 5:25 AM Subject: [NTH-ENG] Thankfulness > Dear Everyone, > > This came just a short time ago and I thought I would send it onto > the list. > > Glenda > > > > Be thankful > > The following is something to ponder.............. > > If you woke up this morning with more health than > illness...you are more blessed than the million of those > who will not survive this week. > > If you have never experienced the danger of battle, > the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of > torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead > of 500 million people in the world. > > If you can attend a church meeting without fear of > harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more > blessed than three billion people in the world. > > If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on > your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you > are richer than 75% of this world. > > If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and > spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the > top 8% of the world's wealthy. > > If your parents are still alive and still > married...you are very rare, even in the United > States. > > If you hold up your head with a smile on your face > and are truly thankful...you are blessed because the > majority can, but most do not. > > If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even > touch them on the shoulder...you are blessed because > you can offer healing touch. > > If you can read this message, you just received a > double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, > and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two > billion people in the world that cannot read at all. > > > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > An alternative mailing list for genealogy research in > Northern England, this list covers the whole of the North of England >

Dear all, Thanks to this list I relate to 21. Regards, Mikey. SIGNS THAT YOU'VE REALLY ENTERED THE 21st CENTURY IN THE USA. 1 You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 2 You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three 3 You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom "What's for dinner"? 4 Your daughter sells Girl Guide Cookies via her web site. 5 You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbour yet this year. 6 You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea 7 You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant 8 Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver. 9 You pull up in yor own driveway and use your cell plhone to see if anyone is home 10 Every commercial on television has web-site address at the bottom of the screen 11 You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid. 12 The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you. 13 Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car. 14 Your reaon for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses. 15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow. 16 Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet 17 Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-It notes. 18 You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person 19 You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls 20 You turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one. 21 You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee 22 You wake up at 4 a.m. to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed 23 You start tilting your head sideways to smile :-) 24 You're reading this. 25 Even worse, you're going to forward it to someone else!

Angela, Mikey's; snap with your Mums: 2. 1. 2000. or USA style 1. 2. 2000. Mikey. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kostas & Angela Nicolaou <titina23@spidernet.com.cy> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 4:03 PM Subject: [NTH-ENG] Re: The date > I've just thought, my Birthday will fall on 02-02-2001 > and my daughters is 22-12-2000 > Mums 02-01-2001 > > We're all a load of twos...... > > I'm not hinting honest.......... > > Best wishes > Angela > Cyprus > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > Browse the archives, > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L/ > Search the list archives, > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=NORTHERN-ENGLAND >

Here we go again, testing if I can send message in Outlook without crashing my computer......... Angela Cyprus --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.214 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 16/11/2000

Marged the only way I found to do it was have avg set to certify outgoing mail with attachments only, someone else may have another way but I couldn't find one . ttfn Marion --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

Ha,ha not in this house, I need my beauty sleep :-)))))) Anon <<<<<Shouldn't that read gets up ............ ?>>>> --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

> This reminded me of an interview I once did for a magazine on the end > of which the reporter wrote, "at the end of the day Marion goes to bed > shattered but satisfied" ROTFLOL > Oh boy did Steve get some stick at work over that one :-)))))) > > TTFN > Marion > Shouldn't that read gets up ............ ? Dave :-) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14-Nov-00

Dear Mikey whatever it was you did we forgive you now :-)))))))) <<<<Dear lovely lady members, What's in a name.............. you lovely flowers! Oh luxury. you Prophetess....... Oh Wisdom eh or be it E or Ed? :-)) The grass............. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

Glad to have been of help Jim. <<That was like having a mate next door to ask. You were so quick.>> <<Anyway with my 15" modem and a near empty 'my documents' I'm highly satisfied.>> This reminded me of an interview I once did for a magazine on the end of which the reporter wrote, "at the end of the day Marion goes to bed shattered but satisfied" ROTFLOL Oh boy did Steve get some stick at work over that one :-)))))) TTFN Marion --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

This was great I have forwarded it all over the place LOL Thanks Maggie, TTFN Me --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

Mine falls on 22/2/2001 or if your over the pond 2/22/2001 I'd like to be around on the 22/2/2222, but alas an impossible dream LOL TTFN Marion <<<I've just thought, my Birthday will fall on 02-02-2001>>>> --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000

Brian, You have to top the lot :) Whoever managed to fry bacon and read e-mail at the same time ? No wonder you never get a decent Sunday Roast. You most probably built your website while the chicken was roasting ! I must say, you're giving me some laughs lately, glad to see you've a great sense of humour underneath that duvet. P.S I saw a Bramhall query on the Liverpool list Ann Bramhall. If you haven't seen it give me a shout and I'll dig it out of the trash for you. Best wishes angela Cyprus

Well, we know our smoke alarms are working ok - they get checked out every Sunday lunchtime when I'm making the bacon butties with one eye on the computer! Marged | Brian, | | You have to top the lot :) | | Whoever managed to fry bacon and read e-mail at the same time ? | | No wonder you never get a decent Sunday Roast. | You most probably built your website while the chicken was roasting ! | | I must say, you're giving me some laughs lately, glad to see you've a | great sense of humour underneath that duvet. | P.S I saw a Bramhall query on the Liverpool list Ann Bramhall. | If you haven't seen it give me a shout and I'll dig it out of the trash | for you. | | Best wishes | angela | Cyprus | | | ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | To unsubscribe from the list in mail mode send a message to | NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com | that contains the word unsubscribe and nothing else. | If you are in digest mode, then send the command instead to | NORTHERN-ENGLAND-D-request@rootsweb.com | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/00

I can only eat filleted and skinned fish. Jim Sharpe ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Bramhall <brian_bramhall@LineOne.net> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] MAD FRENCH COW DISEASE > Mornin all, > > There have been so many times when I have had to leave a meal (fish) because > I spotted A bone. > > My partner used to say I was "embarrassing". > > I had to give up ordering fish and I love it. Particularly Plaice. > > Brian B > Lancashire, UK. > > brian_bramhall@lineone.net > http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Allen" <dave@cdcatalogues.co.uk> > To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:34 PM > Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] MAD FRENCH COW DISEASE > > > > Evening Marged, > > > > I think , on balance , if we're going to get mad cow disease then it > should > > be "English" ! Mind you the best peppered steak I had was in France ( > > Brive ). Now that's 25 years ago , am I safe ? > > > > Know what you mean about egg shell, very off-putting. I'm almost the same > > with fish bones - never have been able to eat kippers. Like smoked haddock > > ( or should I say dyed ? ) , cod etc , but I do pick through it , just in > > case. Had cod and chips for my pub lunch today - only 5 bones ! > > > > Dave > > > > You're not alone when your e-mail's working. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > > To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:14 PM > > Subject: [NTH-ENG] MAD FRENCH COW DISEASE > > > > > > > Well, I've got my name down for French Mad Cow Disease. I was going to > > write > > > that in French, but I think my brain has started to go already. > > > > > > A year or two ago we were on holiday in Paris and ate a few times at a > > > Restaurant that Don had found in a book called "Pauper's Paris" (don't > > knock it, > > > it's a good book, and very appropriate). > > > > > > I tried many dishes on their lunch menu. It was one of those places > with > > oil > > > cloth on the tables and where you sit cheek by jowl with complete > > strangers, > > > most of them drunk and/or smoking Gauloise. > > > > > > The black pudding was very good, so one day I thought I'd try the Steack > > Tartare > > > (their spelling, not mine). > > > The patron was very determined that I was not going to have it, so I > chose > > > something else. But it was on my mind, so next time we went back, I > > ordered it > > > again, and this time I had thought out the French for "No, I am > determined > > to > > > have the Steack Tartare". > > > > > > With a gallic shrug he went off to get it. Well, most of you will know > > the > > > punch line. Steack Tartare is raw minced beef, served with a raw egg in > > half > > > the shell, plus capers and chips. Oh, and Tabasco sauce in a little > > bottle. > > > > > > I was determined not to let down the British (on this occasion they were > > > British) and I gamely mixed the raw egg into the mince, sprinkled it > with > > the > > > various accoutrements, and ate most of it. As I remember it, we were > > going for > > > the plane an hour after lunch, and I just had to hope and pray that the > > > galloping Salmonella didn't hit me, from the egg. I had no fears about > the > > beef > > > in those days - after all it was French. > > > > > > No ill effects resulted, but I know that if M le Patron tries to give me > > advice > > > in future, I will try to understand what he is saying and even if I > don't, > > I > > > won't have what I was trying to order. > > > > > > PS - I truly loath and detest egg shell. Won't even eat an egg sandwich > > made by > > > someone else in case they didn't get all the egg shell out - and half a > > one was > > > on my plate! > > > > > > > > > Marged > > > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14-Nov-00 > > > > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > > Browse the archives, > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L/ > > Search the list archives, > > > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=NORTHERN-ENGLAND > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000 > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > This list also allows Trivia postings about the region as well as serious genealogy research postings. > >