"Chess One" wrote in message .. .

Somewhere at great distance to the West is another city,
say as far as Munster is from Münster, called Trono. I
have met people who claim to have been there, and say the
natives all wear 'turtlenecks', but they always
smirk when telling the story. In films they always show
the "Canadian Flag" as some sort of road-kill Rorschach
shape on a field of snow.

Phil

I used to teach half way between "Trono" and a Motor City
suburb, called Windsor. When I enthusiastically told
my students that English is an excellent auxiliary language
to convey simple mathematical ideas, they booed me. That
was the only time in my life that I was booed by students
or in general in public.

When Leopold Infeld lived in Toronto he prayed to be allowed
to die on Friday (since he didn't want to live through
another boring torontian weekend). Things have changed a lot
in this respect though since his days.

Regards,

Wlod

What country is that flag from?

Such a long patriotic thread thread
would not be complete without my friends'
statement:

pledges of allegiance
-------------------------------------------------------------

i pledge allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america
and to the repulic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.

i pledge allegiance to my lawn
mower
and to the weekend ritual for which it stands
one lawnmower under me
a john deere
with horsepower and clippings for all.

i pledge allegiance to my car
a luxury sports sedan from abroad
and to the commute for which it stands
one cellular phone under dark airconditioned glass
mostly busy
with monthly payments too big to disclose.

i pledge allegiance to my wife
a delta delta delta former pledge
and to the suburban home for which she stands
one talk show after another and then some soaps
but such a clean house
with energy to spare for social occasions
and occasional ****ing.

i pledge allegiance to my microwave
and to the beep-beep convenience
for which it stands,
high-power, low-wattage,
with ten power settings
and popcorn for all.

i pledge allegiance to my lawn,
and to the neighborhood for which it stands,
one chemical treatment, under chemlawn,
indestructible,
with walking and
playing for no one.


Marek Lugowski / Marie Coffin
21 July 1992
Cincinnati, Ohio / Ames, Iowa


Finally you have gained the proper perspective.

Regards,

Wlod

(Ivan) wrote in message . com...
It says on site that GM Michael Adams is from England but how come
they are using a different country's flag:

http://wcclibya2004.com/news/f1/02.jpg

What country is that flag from?

Try:

http://www.flags.net/mainindex.htm

and in partcular

http://www.flags.net/indexe.htm

versus

http://www.flags.net/indexg.htm

e(lusive) versus g(reat--btw, why
is it still called great? :-).

Regards,

Wlod

"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski" wrote in message

I used to teach half way between "Trono" and a Motor City
suburb, called Windsor. When I enthusiastically told
my students that English is an excellent auxiliary language
to convey simple mathematical ideas, they booed me. That
was the only time in my life that I was booed by students
or in general in public.

laugh the way to get served last in Quebec is to say "Kwa bek" instead of
"Kay bek"

Quebec City is very beautiful. I was there a few times in the Summer on
business and not much happened in the old city until about 3 in the
afternoon when people went shopping, then dined at 8 on truly excellent food
for a tourist zone, then at maybe 11pm you could hardly move in the streets
for people, jugglers and Andeans playing music while you sat on a terrace
drinking some brandy, and a man [student] close by attempted standing on a
cube for 24 hours without moving for the world record. later a walk along
the grand terrace before the frontenac where churchill met roosevelt, and a
look down at the old town 300 feet vertically below

travelling further up the north side of the st lawrence there is a falls,
higher than niagra, then on an island on the river ordinary life of the
locals making a few dollars selling jams and such, then after great
distances, the river widening slightly, you encounter a rare town on the
coastal road, and I recommend drinking ordinaire in a cafe rather than
canadian coke - a burp ever sip! what do they put in it?

quebec city is more french than montreal which could be called
'international'

later i took my daughter to montréal to look at mcgill univ, which she
didn't like 'but was good enough for engineers' and we went to lib arts
concordia univ instead, which is a university in 2 tower blocks and an
underpass - she liked it, maybe good for her post-graduate study

the difficulty was that she had much financial aide in the US but none in
Canada, even so the result would be the same, and the curricula were
probably better in the canadian univs than in the us - but after living in
vermont she chose a californian univ

in montréal the waitress said she had been to the states, to boston, and
what a scandal the food was (!) everything overcooked and such small
portions! she salted her speech with french adjectives some of which i
understood, though not from schoolbooks

on the way back we took the pretty route and got lost and crossed into the
very rural and poor mountain area of the north-east kingdom in vermont - i
asked the us boarder guard 'where the hell is this?' and he said 'you got
it'

When Leopold Infeld lived in Toronto he prayed to be allowed
to die on Friday (since he didn't want to live through
another boring torontian weekend). Things have changed a lot
in this respect though since his days.

There is someone here who says that the trono cc has moved, but still has a
strongish player resident, about 2350.

Cordially, Phil

Regards,

Wlod

"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski" wrote in message
om...

btw, why is [Great Britain] still called great? :-).

Because it's still bigger than Brittany.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

"John Rowland" wrote in message ...
"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski" wrote in message
om...

btw, why is [Great Britain] still called great? :-).

Because it's still bigger than Brittany.

And why do I bother to joke?

Good question.

Wlod

:-)

Wlodzimierz Holsztynski wrote:



J





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btw, why is [Great Britain] still called great? :-).

Because it's still bigger than Brittany.

And why do I bother to joke?

Good question.

Wlod


Talking to yourself is a sure sign of mental illness, Neitsche had it
(syphilis I mean) - pls. seek help..

michael adams wrote in message ...

Talking to yourself is a sure sign of mental illness, Neitsche had it
(syphilis I mean) - pls. seek help.

His name was Nietzsche, not "Neitsche." Friedrich Nietzsche,
1844-1900, German philosopher, not only frequently misspelled, but
widely misunderstood.

Taylor Kingston

"Chess One" writes:

Where the hell is Quebec? ;-)

Its a mythical country to the north of Maine in the United States, no one
has ever been there. The capital of the place is called Quebec City, of
course - it is not a very imaginative myth.

This would explain my terrible play in my last tournament
there - it was just a dream.


Somewhere at great distance to the West is another city, say as far as
Munster is from Münster, called Trono.

Or Tranna, T.O., etc. Like many other mythical places
the variety of names is a giveaway.

I have met people who claim to have
been there, and say the natives all wear 'turtlenecks', but they always
smirk when telling the story.

Rumor has it they always play 1g3 or 1... g6. Even when
playing go.


William Hyde
EOS Department
Duke University

(Wlodzimierz Holsztynski) writes:

"Chess One" wrote in message .. .

Somewhere at great distance to the West is another city,
say as far as Munster is from Münster, called Trono. I
have met people who claim to have been there, and say the
natives all wear 'turtlenecks', but they always
smirk when telling the story. In films they always show
the "Canadian Flag" as some sort of road-kill Rorschach
shape on a field of snow.

Phil

I used to teach half way between "Trono" and a Motor City
suburb, called Windsor.

Waterloo? London? There are some good chess players
in London. When I was at Waterloo there were none,
but a young B player named Hergott soon changed that.

When I enthusiastically told
my students that English is an excellent auxiliary language
to convey simple mathematical ideas, they booed me. That
was the only time in my life that I was booed by students
or in general in public.

When Leopold Infeld lived in Toronto he prayed to be allowed
to die on Friday (since he didn't want to live through
another boring torontian weekend).

1939-1950. The apex era of "Toronto the Good". Even
then it wasn't too hard to find "Toronto the Bad", but
perhaps not so easy for a newcomer. I have much the
same problem here.

I assume he was part of the boom in U of T mathematics
around mid century. The inexpensive black-covered math
books ("Variational Methods" by Lanczos, "Tensor Calculus"
by Synge and Schild, and of course "Rings and Radicals,
by Nathan Divinsky - I had to get some chess content in
here somehow) were still in print when I was there. Some
of the older professors had benefited from the presence
of Infeld et al.

Things have changed a lot
in this respect though since his days.

For better and worse. We no longer have weekly speed
tournaments with a few IMs to provide a challenge.

William Hyde
EOS Department
Duke University