Re: [eia] that was my final answer

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake MALabbett@xxxxxxx:
> Gentlemen
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> Apologies for not replying in last few days but I have just come back from =2
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> the television studios where I became the 471st person to sit in the hot sea=
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> of  the UK version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
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> Appropriately enough I won =A332,000 (tax-free) on knowing the profession of=
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> Thomas Jefferson, but failed to win =A364,000 on Peter Hoeg's novel "Miss=20
> Smilla's  feeling for Snow". Just as well I am conquering those pesky Danes.=
> ..
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> In UK terms, =A332,000 equates to approximately 20 months of teaching salary=
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> after tax and 20% of the value of a three bedroomed house.
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> Will try and catch up asap.
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> Cheers
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> Mark

Wow, congratulations.

Aside:

I was at Monticello last summer. (It's definately worth seeing if you're
in that part of Virginia.) Thomas Jefferson could have made a fortune farming
in decent soil, given his scientific approach to farming; instead, he was
trying to farm soil that was just unfit for cultivation and racked up an
amazing amount of debt doing it. (Monticello is on top of a small mountain,
great view but lousy soil.)

-- 
J.
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