[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article <ao45rjFfa5qU2 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <nospam-6D6374.07462614022013 at news.chingola.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> > In article 
> > <910855dc-f787-4b02-9b0f-befad67e2ac2 at fn10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
> >  AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> It's i before e, except when it's e before i. :-D
> > 
> > "Weird" is quite aptly the exception to the "i before e, except after c" 
> > rule.
> > 
> 
> When this subject comes up I always tell people the anecdote about
> when I was in grade school (2nd or 3rd grade).  After teaching us
> the rule we had a spelling test of ten words.  everyone got 0.  The
> teacher chose 10 words that were all exceptions so all us naive kids
> applied the rule and got them all wrong.  I'll bet she thought it was
> funny. :-(  Of course, today she would probably get fired after all
> the parents complained about damaging their kids self-esteem.

That was a good lesson.

-- 
Paul Sture