Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

Lister wrote:

> A long time ago (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:21:38 GMT, really), in a pub far,
> far away, "res069fl" <res069fl@gte.net> slammed a pint glass on the
> table and said :
>
> >Gates loaned
>
> LENT!

Only in Britain is the name of a religious season also the verb for
loaning money.
Here in North America we know that the past tense is formed by adding an
"ed" to the stem of regular verbs.
Unless one has had too many pints, that is.
;-)

Roy

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