Subject: oops 20th century usage of here at bp was actually divided into here & at bp<br/>
Date: Oct 15, 2006 @ 19:59<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1057170943">the full & undivided expression<br/>
here at bp<br/>
was first used here at bp in 2001<br/>
tho bp was written in full caps in that instance<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/3704">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/3704</a><br/>
& clearly it was done regardless if not oblivious of<br/>
british petroleum<br/>
<br/>
& the earliest known usage here at bp of the exact<br/>
phrase here at bp <br/>
with the bp written in fullblown lower case<br/>
did not in fact occur until 2002<br/>
<br/>
but the archetype & earliest known forerunner usage<br/>
in which the word here & the phrase at bp <br/>
were however still separated by quite a few words<br/>
did actually occur back in the 20th century in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/740">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/740</a><br/>
where the idea at least of a virtual place called bp<br/>
was already quite clearly formed <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so <br/>
we here at bp are at least a century if not a<br/>
millennium ahead of the rest of the world<br/>
in having any right of uti possidetis or effectivity<br/>
in the usage of the expression<br/>
here at bp<br/>
<br/>
& the above is in correction of a slight misstatement<br/>
i just made in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/20098">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/20098</a><br/>
<br/>
but in addition <br/>
or on another hand <br/>
there has also been an actual & portentous connection<br/>
between boundarypoint & british petroleum since the<br/>
beginning of 2004<br/>
which is explained in the following excerpt from<br/>
message 12743 <br/>
reporting on the surprising outcome & literal<br/>
highlight of that years bp inaugural tour<br/>
which was incidentally also the first tour of its kind<br/>
ever performed in the name of bp<br/>
& thus the inaugural tour of our ongoing tour of<br/>
annual inaugural tours<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
route 2004 begins near freeport texas<br/>
<br/>
then it runs thru shopping malls & coastal flats for<br/>
about 49 miles on the odometer<br/>
 <br/>
& since i drove it at night i didnt see much<br/>
except<br/>
the one great highlight<br/>
indeed there was no other great illumination anywhere<br/>
on the road<br/>
 <br/>
a bp mega refinery<br/>
 <br/>
i kid you not<br/>
thats bp as in you know what<br/>
 <br/>
quite a beauty of its kind too<br/>
 <br/>
in fact it was the grandest such thing i have ever<br/>
seen<br/>
 <br/>
so i have to figure 2004 is going to be a year of<br/>
magnificent refinement at boundarypoint <br/>
mmm<br/>
<br/>
end excerpt<br/>
<br/>
& i note oddly enough in that case i did not say <br/>
here at bp <br/>
but just <br/>
at boundarypoint<br/>
i imagine because i didnt want to confuse it with<br/>
british petroleum<br/>
<br/>
but clearly it was already too late <br/>
for the die had been cast & the impression received<br/>
 <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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