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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:55:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26462848-1442-965e-8673-792e56bb0ea5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1787002.lh9CXKbaV1@peak>

On 30/12/2017 02:44, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 16:45:33 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> 
>> (Plus, of course, so much development is done for the American market,
>> so they don't realise how hard it is to get a change like A4 to stick :-(
> 
> Damned colonials. It's like the baseball "world series": no-one outside 
> north America plays it

[random OT factoid]
baseball is hugely popular in Japan. Rugby too :-)

[2nd random OT factoid]
It's the "world series" because the first sponsor was a newspaper "News
of the World" iirc (plus some typical US bravado)


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-30 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-21 14:20 [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page? Mick
2017-12-21 15:16 ` tuxic
2017-12-21 18:00   ` Mick
2017-12-21 17:01 ` Jack
2017-12-21 18:28   ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:18     ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:24       ` Jack
2017-12-21 22:35         ` Mick
2017-12-21 22:46           ` Jack
2017-12-21 23:01           ` Walter Dnes
2017-12-21 23:20             ` Mick
2017-12-22 16:30               ` Mick
2017-12-27 19:45                 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored Mick
2017-12-27 23:53                   ` Mick
2017-12-28  6:14                   ` Taiidan
2017-12-29 13:51                     ` Mick
2017-12-29 13:57                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-29 14:30                         ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-29 15:01                           ` Mick
2017-12-29 16:13                           ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-29 16:45                             ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30  0:44                               ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-30 12:55                                 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2017-12-30 14:32                                   ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 15:33                                     ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31  2:26                                     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 10:34                                       ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 11:11                                         ` Wols Lists

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