"Bob" wrote in message
...


Colorado also has the most educated and most
fit population of any state in the US.

Glory!

That's interesting. If true, then the educational standards for the
rest of the US must be terrible.

In the 70's a university graduate friend from New Zealand applied to
Colorado State for admission as a Ph.D. student. He received a nice
letter explaining that.. "We are sorry but we have to decline your
application as we do not accept enrolments from students whose first
language is not English" - yet that was all he spoke.

Peter

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:


"Bob" wrote in message
...


Colorado also has the most educated and most
fit population of any state in the US.

Glory!

That's interesting. If true, then the educational standards for the
rest of the US must be terrible.

In the 70's a university graduate friend from New Zealand applied to
Colorado State for admission as a Ph.D. student. He received a nice
letter explaining that.. "We are sorry but we have to decline your
application as we do not accept enrolments from students whose first
language is not English" - yet that was all he spoke.

Peter


Given that inhabitants of Australia speak "Oz" one would suppose that
an individual from New Zealand would speak "Zed" and thus not be
acceptable to an American collage.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:07:52 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:


"Bob" wrote in message
...


Colorado also has the most educated and most
fit population of any state in the US.

Glory!

That's interesting. If true, then the educational standards for the
rest of the US must be terrible.

In the 70's a university graduate friend from New Zealand applied to
Colorado State for admission as a Ph.D. student. He received a nice
letter explaining that.. "We are sorry but we have to decline your
application as we do not accept enrolments from students whose first
language is not English" - yet that was all he spoke.

Peter


Given that inhabitants of Australia speak "Oz" one would suppose that
an individual from New Zealand would speak "Zed" and thus not be
acceptable to an American collage.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

Hi Bruce,

Ah. So that's why! I had wondered all these years. Andy was very
bright and founded an industry exporting orchard flowers to Japan.

I fly out this afternoon. I simply hate sitting in a plane seat for
all those hours. Curacao-Miami-Dallas-Honolulu-Sydney. Then in a week
or so Sydney-KL. Having an overnight stop at Honolulu.

Asalaam
Peter

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:06:23 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:07:52 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +1000, Herodotus
wrote:


"Bob" wrote in message
...


Colorado also has the most educated and most
fit population of any state in the US.

Glory!

That's interesting. If true, then the educational standards for the
rest of the US must be terrible.

In the 70's a university graduate friend from New Zealand applied to
Colorado State for admission as a Ph.D. student. He received a nice
letter explaining that.. "We are sorry but we have to decline your
application as we do not accept enrolments from students whose first
language is not English" - yet that was all he spoke.

Peter


Given that inhabitants of Australia speak "Oz" one would suppose that
an individual from New Zealand would speak "Zed" and thus not be
acceptable to an American collage.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

Hi Bruce,

Ah. So that's why! I had wondered all these years. Andy was very
bright and founded an industry exporting orchard flowers to Japan.

I fly out this afternoon. I simply hate sitting in a plane seat for
all those hours. Curacao-Miami-Dallas-Honolulu-Sydney. Then in a week
or so Sydney-KL. Having an overnight stop at Honolulu.

Asalaam
Peter

I don;t envy you at all. It always seems to me that after a flight to
anywhere I'm more exhausted then if I'd walked. Plus it takes
approximately 5 hours to make even the two hour flight to Singapore.

The drive to the airport, getting there at least an hour early,
standing in line, actually making the flight, standing in line again
and finally the taxi ride to the hotel.



Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)