On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:56 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:49:23 -0400, "cybercat" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"blake murphy" > wrote
>>>> everyone should be wrong once in a while. i've tried it once or twice
>>>> myself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>No! I don't believe it.
>>
>> it's one of them 'the exception proves the rule' dealies.
>
>And, of course, in that context "proves" means "tests the validity of",
>not "shows to be valid".

you are correct again, blinky. now pipe down, i'm trying to work
here.

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:56 -0800, Blinky the Shark >
> wrote:
>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:49:23 -0400, "cybercat" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"blake murphy" > wrote
>>>>> everyone should be wrong once in a while. i've tried it once or
>>>>> twice myself.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>No! I don't believe it.
>>>
>>> it's one of them 'the exception proves the rule' dealies.
>>
>>And, of course, in that context "proves" means "tests the validity of",
>>not "shows to be valid".
>
> you are correct again, blinky. now pipe down, i'm trying to work here.

My job here is done.

For the moment.

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l, not -l wrote:
> On 25-Mar-2008, "cybercat" > wrote:
>
>> "Ophelia" > wrote
>>> Yes but we were years after you got it. I wrote to them a few years
>>> ago,
>>> asking when they would sell it here. They wrote back to say they had no
>>> plans at that time to bring here. Happily, they have done so now
>>>
>> They probably went for the most lucrative markets first. "Hey, let's start
>> it in the US, sell it to all those fat, sugar snuffling Americans!
>
> It did not start in US; it was sold in Canada for years before coming to the
> US.

For a couple of years, I ordered Splenda from Australia, since it was
unavailable in the US. In Brazil, a liquid form of Splenda was
available, and I have not seen that here.

Becca