OT:Google's new free broadband service

This is toooooo funny! This world is getting more complicated every day (or, should I say, "technologically advanced") Wondering whether this would allow the "Big Brother" to "monitor" our "Movements"..... Just a thought! ME-Judy

Too funny, Kathy! LOL! And I was just commenting this morning that teachers the world over are grateful that today is a Sunday and that they won't have to put up with "stuff" in class. ;)

The FAQs address just that issue. ;-)

mailto: snipped-for-privacy@KayneyNOSPAMQuilting.comhttp://fabrictramp.typepad.com/fabric_tramping/> remove the obvious to reply What a wonderful April fools joke. Love those Google folks.

John

without even reading it... its monday the 2nd here. what a shame i missed out on that wonderful offer. pass the TP someone, ta. jeanne

That reminds me of the wonderful "poissons d'avril" the news broadcast did when I lived in France. The whole news show was fake news stories. My favorite was about the farmer who was suing the government over the TGV (the French high-speed train that had just started). He claimed his cows were so fascinated by the train that they wouldn't graze anymore, but just stood looking down the tracks all day, waiting for the next train to whizz by.

(And why on earth do they call it "fish of April"???)

I can't answer your last question definitively, Kathy, but I *suspect* (and this is my own hypothesis only) that it's related to a phrase I've heard here, too. Have you ever heard someone who is particularly naïve or gullible called a fish?

At any rate, when I was a French teacher (I never lived in France), I used to have my advanced and intermediate students make little construction-paper fish shapes and write "poisson d'avril" on them. Then I gave each a list of names of my beginning students. The object was to stick a fish on the beginning students without being caught, and then the beginner and the "sticker" each got a few extra points for getting into the spirit of the thing. ;) It also served to keep more "aggressive" tricks at bay.

probly related somehow but beats me how. how about 'hes got the brains of a chocolate fish'. thats candy here. chocolate in the shape of a fish. great to use at kids partys. they fish for the treat. just adding to the fun and games of the day. cheers from autumn in the south pacific wheres now the 2nd so what am i doing? oh well. jeanne

Yup, that's just what this math teacher was thinking!!

I got home from work yesterday, grateful that none of my employees had pulled any tricks. Then the phone rang, and it was my top employee telling me he was down at the store, the alarm was going off, the police were there, and that someone had broken the plate glass windows in the front. Man, did he get me good!

Ah, yes! (didn't read the FAQs - where my "privates" are Protected! - is that "according to the Privacy Act" ?????) ME-Judy