Happy Perihelion Day

JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.sci.astronomy, Aidan Karley posted at
Thu, 8 Jan 2004 02:57:42 :-

http://www.merlyn
..demon.co.uk/astro2.htm#No.
I decipher that as being
"http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/astro2.htm#No"
(instead of the home page for Merrill Lynch, beancounters to the
rich and extremely rich)

I don't pander to deficient newsreaders. A newsreader should recognise
... bracketing of URLs, with or without URL:[ ], whether or not split
by line-break.


Took me a couple of seconds to twig that "NUSA" stands for
news:uk.science.astronomy in your notation.

Never try to understand something until you have glanced at the whole of
it once. The explanation followed.


Here's one you can add to your list : the claim that prior to
Columbus, people thought that the Earth was flat.

That's history, not astronomy. Perhaps someone else could do historical
& literary errors.

I remember being in Gostinitsa Ukraina - noisy plumbing.

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