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   =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= to bill   
   Re: So Long   
   17 Dec 24 19:20:11   
   
   From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 12/17/2024 4:02 PM, bill wrote:   
   > On 12/17/2024 2:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> On 12/17/2024 8:11 AM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:24:37 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>> On 2024-12-14, Subcommandante XDelta  wrote:   
   >>>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:24:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> PS: We know the VMS ecosystem will be well and truly dead when   
   >>>>>> someone   
   >>>>>> like Arne comes along and says he's not updating his website any more   
   >>>>>> because there's no point. :-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Arne will be the last Yorkshireman standing. :-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> $ set response/mode=good_natured   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Arne is not from God's Own County. He is from a rather boring country   
   >>>> called Denmark. :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Those Danes get sround. :-)   
   >>   
   >> The vikings traveled far:   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#/media/File:Vikings-Voyages.png   
      
   > Well, they made it at least as far as what is now Minnesota on North   
   > America.  That's 1400 miles overland.   
      
   The scientific consensus is that the Kensington Runestone is a   
   forgery and that the vikings did not get to Minnesota.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone   
      
   But it is a good story. And I suppose people in Minnesota   
   like the story. And besides "When the legend becomes fact,   
   print the legend". :-)   
      
   Arne   
      
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