Subject: Fwd: baarle books
Date: Jul 13, 2004 @ 06:08
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@yahoo.com>)
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> thanx doctor for your fair answers&
> which i have hopefully rescued & attached below
> since i meant to inquire more generally
> & very much appreciate that our bp playground has
> become for you a showplace of scholarship &
> as you say below
> a place of work also
> while it was formerly only a place of play & levity
> mere multipunctiliousnessis
>
> which is why i always ask when i dont understand how
> an interest in
> for example
> electrified fences or comparative postal rates or
> guano law or the many other even less obvious & more
> bizarre things that people often ask for & bring &
> even salute here
> may actually connect with or relate to us
> & to our special arena & quest for multidimensional
> accomplishment
>
> & i dont know what you all may sometimes think this
> in all your earnest seriousness & sobrietyso
>
> but what we really have here & what i for one have
> come here for is the unique opportunity afforded for
> transacting some seriously compounded frivolity
>
> so i just want to add
> & what i really meant to indicate in the first place
> was
> i am sincerely glad you & all our other clavers are
> embedded heremay be
> & our philatelists so stuck on us
> & our border lovers so marginally appreciative
> etc
> etc
> etc
> but would all our electrified fence enthusiasts etc
> please
> lighten up
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 17
> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 03:30:21 -0000
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> Subject: Re: Baarle and books
>
> >
> > For those of you who read Dutch or French, you
> interestedgetting
>
> congrats on your success too
>
> & again
> why
> why might knowing french or dutch interest anyone in
> hold of an electric fenceto read the text and
> book
>
>
> Because if you know those languages you will be able
> not just gawp at the pretty pictures.me) story about
>
> or what do you like about this
> it is a fair question
>
> I like it because it tells a previously unknown (to
> electrified barbed wire along a national boundary,the reasons why, when,
> whom, etc. It has a map and photos. And it mentionsBaarle as part of the
> reason for building the fence.Glassner's
>
>
>
> >
> > If you can find ANY of that on Amazon (apart from
> book) you areAmazon. The others are
> > doing well!!
>
> thanx
> but again why
> why would we be doing well
> except to find glassners book there
>
> does it have electric fences too
>
> i dont get it
>
>
> Because only Glassner's book is likely to be on
> foreign publications, and best to track down incountry, not from the US or
> even French or German amazon sites.__________________________________
>
>
>
>
> Dr Brendan Whyte
> University of Melbourne
> Vic 3010
> AUSTRALIA
> bwhyte@u...