On 12/6/03 18:42, "Olin Lathrop" wrote: > You've got it the easy way around. It can be rather confusing for us > simpleton americans when watching BBC programs where the place names sound > like meaninful words. I guess you have to know the magic list of > keywords, because it's hard to spot them from syntax sometimes. Maybe I'm > just slow, but it took me a while to get used to Midsummer Worthy being a > place name. Then there are names like Muddy Field Over Hill Behind > Woodshed Upon Thames, and houses apparently have names too (and are valid > mail addresses ?) but often not something obvious like House. My old address in the UK was: Ham Cottage EX13 7HL That's all I needed to get my mail. And we got mail not once, but twice a day if necessary. And a First Class letter posted in the other side of the country would generally arrive next day. The Royal Mail was actually pretty slick in many ways...not sure what it's like these days ;-) Where I live in Toronto, they won't even bother trying to deliver parcels to me...the lazy-ass mail staff just drop it off at the local post office and send me a postcard telling me to go pick it up. This adds an additional couple of days on the delivery times...infact, I got the postcard *AFTER* I'd recued a package the other day (the originator had sent me a tracking #, so I knew it was at the post office). -marc -------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas Geekythings Inc. C/416.543.4896 UNIX, Database, Security and Networking Consulting -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics