Wally Anglesea� stepped up to the podium, tapped the forlorn-looking SM57, 
asked "Is this thing on?" and, in alt.paranormal, message 
news:smujt05243lp1i79g7g1gp3j1oc8gf54sn@4ax.com, prounounced:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:02:06 GMT, DrPostman <Looky@mysig.foremail>
wrote:

Almost all invention is built upon previous inventions.  Sir Issac
Newton devised a design for the first steam car in 1680.

How appropriate. It's his birthday today (4th January)

It is?  Not December 25?  What the hell were we celebrating last
month?

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html
Born: 4 Jan 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 31 March 1727 in London, England

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html
Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, near Grantham, on December 25,
1642, and died at Kensington, London, on March 20, 1727.

Hmmm.  Confusion reigns.

- L
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Larry Huntley                                          Beaverton, Oregon
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