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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored
  @ 2017-12-30 12:55 99%       ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2017-12-30 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw
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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



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