> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org
> [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson
> Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
>
>
> <blatant plug>
>
> We support customers out in the Middle East:-)

This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ??????

>
> </blatant plug>
>
> mak wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Does IBM stopped supporting informix in middle east, since they have
> > closed down informix middle east, customer support never heard of
> > informix when contacted at IBM M.E.


Colin Bull
c.bull@videonetworks.com

sending to informix-list

Colin Bull wrote:

>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org
>> [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson
>> Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35
>> To: informix-list@iiug.org
>> Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
>>
>>
>> <blatant plug>
>>
>> We support customers out in the Middle East:-)
>
> This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ??????

More like Norfolk. And Good!

>> </blatant plug>
>>
>> mak wrote:
>> >
>> > Does IBM stopped supporting informix in middle east, since they have
>> > closed down informix middle east, customer support never heard of
>> > informix when contacted at IBM M.E.

--
Ciao,
The Obnoxious One

"Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown
<obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Colin Bull wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org
>>> [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson
>>> Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35
>>> To: informix-list@iiug.org
>>> Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
>>>
>>>
>>> <blatant plug>
>>>
>>> We support customers out in the Middle East:-)
>>
>> This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ??????
>
>More like Norfolk. And Good!

Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic
instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-)

John Carlson wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown
> <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>More like Norfolk. And Good!
>
> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic
> instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-)

This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk,
Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was
talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. )

--
Ciao,
The Obnoxious One

"Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"

"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bnjt16$12n4qt$1@ID-64669.news.uni-berlin.de...
> John Carlson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown
> > <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>More like Norfolk. And Good!
> >
> > Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic
> > instead of the Middle East . . . . .8-)
>
> This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but
Norfolk,
> Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I
was
> talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. )

"...place that's not even in America!"????? Arrrrggggghhhh, my eyes, my
eyes!!!!! 'Sides...every one knows America is flat and there be monsters at
the edges...

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:54:20 -0500, Obnoxio The Clown wrote:

> John Carlson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>More like Norfolk. And Good!
>>
>> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead of
>> the Middle East . . . . .8-)
>
> This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk,
> Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was
> talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. )

OOOOhhh! So, that's where the Virginian red-neck tendency towards in-breeding
came from!

Apologies to friends south of The Line, but I couldn't resist.

Art S. Kagel

"Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> wrote in message
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org
> > [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Watson
> > Sent: 18 October 2003 00:35
> > To: informix-list@iiug.org
> > Subject: Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
> >
> >
> > <blatant plug>
> >
> > We support customers out in the Middle East:-)
>
> This is not another reference to Scunthorpe is it ??????

Interestingly, any direct reference to Scunthorpe always used to be rejected
by Port Vale's message board. I think it's more sophisticated now.

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message
newsan.2003.10.27.18.17.36.364211.10594@bloomber g.net...
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:54:20 -0500, Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
>
> > John Carlson wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown
<obnoxio@hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>More like Norfolk. And Good!
> >>
> >> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead
of
> >> the Middle East . . . . .8-)
> >
> > This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but
Norfolk,
> > Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I
was
> > talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. )
>
> OOOOhhh! So, that's where the Virginian red-neck tendency towards
in-breeding
> came from!

Actually, there is a theory, woven into a novel called The Dancing Men by
Duncan Kyle, which holds that the so-called Witches of Salem were
descendants of emigrants from a few particularly remote East Anglian (an
area of England for our American readers) villages, and that they were
actually suffering from a form of Huntingdon's Disease common to those
villages, the hereditary disease having in part been encouraged by the lack
of opportunities to inter-breed due to the remote locations. Some of the
characteristics of chorea, of which Huntingdon's Disease is one variant, are
involuntary movements which resemble dancing (the word chorea is itself
derived from the Latin for dancing).