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I think you are right, Nairi, but that would have meant having to point out two errors in Domino's original sentence, rather than just one! Though - since Domino was wondering about asking rather than just asking - should the sentence actually have a question mark? Should it be "I was wondering, 'does anyone here know of good English grammar correcting software'." Let's split a few hundred more peas.

Exactly. But you don't expect accuracy from the BBC, do you? Though the term "Georgian" is probably not entirely correct. What is a Georgian anyway? And there were also Hemshinli Armenians amongst the original deportees.

And were the Americans dressed in their new national costume of boots, kahki trousers, flak jackets, and steel helmets?

I hope not And if that is true then how did they get them through EU customs?

I don't think it is a mistake. "Software" is plural, so you can't use an "a". It's like saying "does anyone here know a good restaurants". But taking away the "a" changes the meaning of what you were trying to say, which is why I thought using "of" rather than "a" sounds better.

Corrected in MS word "I was wondering if anyone here knew good English grammar corrector software?" Corrected to what I would think would be correct "I was wondering if anyone here knew of good English grammar corrector software?

What I wrote there also applies here.

So if the masses here tell you that we are not at all interested in reading sad, juvenile and shitty little postings from a nonmass like yourself, will you take a hike and leave for good? I hope so.

Oh, in the same show, there was a section where the audience was asked which imaginary sport would guarantee a medal for certain people / countries. (David Blunkett - gold medal for knee-jerking, etc). Any suggestions? I wonder - Armenia: gold, silver, and bronze for mutual back-stabbing

It's nice to know that your imagination is keeping to your usual high standards <_< .

Yes Nairi - the parade was rather well done. As for the Byzantine brevity, maybe they wanted to brush over the fact that it was the Christian Byzantine empire that stopped the original Olympic games because they were considered to be pagan. But there was a lot of brushing over of history in the parade - like the start of the politicisation of the games in the 1920s with the exclusion of Germany and Austria. There was a send up of the parade in a radio show today - it had a spoof commentary that went something like "and here now is the traditional scene where large wads of money are placed in the back pockets of Olympic Games officials, and next is ceremonial delivery to the athletes of their crates full of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.

There are plenty of people walking around with parts of their body that are even more useless - eyes, ears, tongues, even whole brains - so lets get snipping.

She is the Venus de Milo, from the 2nd century BC, now in the Louvre museum, Paris. Photographed at closing time when all the crowds had gone. So you are sort of right, Nairi, since Anahit is a sort of Armenian (and Persian) equivalent of Venus. But I think you were thinking of the planet Venus when you suggested it was Venus earlier on!

Seems that nobody want's to make any more guesses - so here is the whole thing.

Ebay have got rid of her. She was offering the same bible, and with the same Turkish propaganda attached to the description. millieek

And what about all the people that you have hurt during your self-centered "learning process"?

Could be ... see my cryptic clue. Was I right about Blackpool?

Sorry - I actually waneted to type "Blackpool" - but for some inexplicable reason it came out as "Brighton" - gremlin in my keyboard perhaps!

OK, more of the picture I posted yesterday. Come on, guesses pleeeze.

Is it "The Tower" at Brighton?

You will need to elaborate on that answer, Nairi.

Yep - I remember the wonderful scenery when I visited it 10 years ago, I especially liked the way the stone cliffs were arranged in shapes like columns: reminded me of the rock formations on Staffa island on the west coast of Scotland. I would have liked to have walked down to and then up along the gorge - but I was with a small tour group and they didn't have the time. Any guesses yet for my picture with the cryptic clue? I'll post more of the photo tonight.

Then it has to be the temple / tomb at Garni! But, even though it's recostruction was more of a rebuilding than a restoration, and it was done in the 1960s, I thought that the new stonework was better done than that.

Ahh, but I was going by what I see, not what I know What I see is part of a building, old, Classical, looks reconstructed rather than repaired, and (importantly) it is photographed under subdued light. Where in the Classical world do you get subdued light? Nowhere much. So it may be pghotographed indoors, like in a museum. But if it is out in the open and is an in-situ building then the heavy-handed and amateurish restoration / reconstuction would point to probably somewhere in Turkey, Ephesus perhaps. (Though the absence of a horde of rusty metal plates nailed to the stonework is puzzling. You normally find one little metal plate giving the house number - doesn't matter that nobody actually lives there, and another little metal plate for the electricity meter number, and another little plate for the obsolete house number, and another little metal plate for an even older obsolete house number, and so on ).

That's a lot of asumptions to make about someone who has only been a member for a couple of days and has only made a dozen or so postings. And Kakachik is actually a woman, right? Steve