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Posted Jun 17, 2001 by Nandi
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  | | Yes, the style is already in GuideML. I think the problem maybe that the subject box already has a style imbedded style in it, and for some reason the <I> and </I> markers are being read as text? So for now I've given up and just used quote marks to indicate the title...
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Posted Jun 18, 2001 by  LL Waz
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| | Welcome to h2g2  . I've just gone green with envy reading your homepage (though not about your work situation). Its just as well summer is just starting here in the UK or I would have gone  . I know almost all of those birds, and I've seen that lightening too.
Waz *goes off to go dreaming*
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Posted Jun 21, 2001 by Santragenius V
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| | Quite a good read! I'm quite taken with your description of the nature there and your way through, in and about in it but also with your impressions of getting back to "civilisartion" once in a while...
As the wildest animal in the forest I enjoy being in every morning is probably the dog I bring with me, I don't find myself in company with much potential danger -- but do enjoy the birds, the squirrels and on a good day, the odd deer.
I don't know where my sanity would be without Mother Nature around to clean my brain...!
 SG V
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Posted Jun 22, 2001 by Nandi
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| | Howzit SantraG - thanks for stopping by...
I've been to Copenhagen (where there seemed to be very many attractive, healthy-looking, liberal people), just once for 4 days on a conference; my fondest memories being that wonderful salmon sushi dish flavoured just right with something like mustard, whose name slips my mind. I even have proof-of-visit: a brave and fearless photo of me standing next to a sign that reads "Tattoo Bimbo." I did not, however, bring a tattoo back.
I quite liked your quote about the relationship between Danish weather and existentialism, and laughed. Although my visit was in early June and I only needed to wear an overcoat on one occasion, I did live under similar lowering skys in Amsterdam one winter. Three months of chill and rain, with the sun making brief, covert appearances only occasionally ('Quick, look, there it is, see it? Behind that pale little bright spot in the clouds? Oh no, too late, it is gone now.'); well, it was enough to suck the hope right out of me! At the time I devised a theory of colonialism that was not economic, it was meteorological - those poor Europeans just couldn't take one more d**m winter!
So I hope the sun is shining for your midsummer's day, and may you picnic with your family until midnight! I, the southerly one, will shiver through the winter solstice under layers of clothes in my typically unheated South African home, keeping my fingers warm on the keyboard, glad that the sun will be coming back soon!
Cheers!
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Posted Jun 25, 2001 by Santragenius V
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That colonisation theory certainly has some merit ! Until just a week or two ago, we most certainly had what Danes, in our typical dry wit (when it comes to the weather, at least), calls "the green winter". Nothing more than 12 or 13°, lots of rain, etc. Though it's grayish today, at least they promise sun and 23... (and I'm at work  )
I'm happy you enjoyed Copenhagen I'd certainly recommend the rest of the article I quoted -- the copyright restrictions made me pull off the link I had to a site which had the full text (as it wasn't Nat'l Geographics...). I must say, that the printed article is not only a good read, the accompanying pictures are great, too.
As to the healthy-thing, I don't think we're too much better than anybody else - and as to the liberal, well, yes on a lot of issues. But these days it seems, IMHO at least, that traditional Danish liberalism is scarred somewhat by too many Danes becoming decidedly unliberal when it comes to integrating "strangers" (read: refugees and immigrants).
I guess it's bound to help in a few years when the need for more people in the workforce becomes very apparant - but I'd have liked the openness to be voluntary...
Anyway, enough of a rant for one morning Keep warm and have a good time reading and h2g2ing...!
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