From Bob Bannister Sent Wed, Dec 2nd 1998, 16:11
From Bob Bannister Sent Wed, Dec 2nd 1998, 16:11
< Stephen Hawking has Lougherigs (?) disease > ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a degenerative disease of motor cells in the spinal cord and brain, known by (bloody ethnocentric) Americans as Lou Gehrig's Disease in honor of a beloved baseball player who died of it. re: Martin on pork pies: There was actually a second Boston Tea Party (The Boston Pork Pie party) in which all pork pies were thrown in the harbor and further imports banned, not because of onerous taxation but because no one wanted to eat them - subsequently the Pork Pie Party put up a member of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones for mayor. Mauritius for holidays - Paul Oakenfeld there? Music question - what's the word on the Pi soundtrack? Bob