Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!postnews.google.com!h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Gowen" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: OT: Wills and a Public Trustee Date: 19 Sep 2006 10:26:54 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <1158686814.461661.295370@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <44fb98c3$0$19749$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <44ff5e7d$0$19661$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <%ctMg.86154$5i3.12502@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4502a060$0$19614$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <35zMg.26115$rP1.12918@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <450348b3$0$19609$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <45036b06$0$19650$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> <4505f0c7$0$19606$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.239.74.18 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1158686819 22395 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2006 17:26:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:26:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.239.74.18; posting-account=3_yTEQ0AAADuOBmhEfSNry9EpVoC-XrQ Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164392 jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote: > Apud Kevin Gowen (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus: > >jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote: > >> Apud Kevin Gowen (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus: > >>> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote: > >>>> I read the anecdote in an autobiography of a guy who explained > >>>> why he came to be born in the British emabassy. His parents certainly > >>>> weren't diplomats. > >> > [...] > >Actually, it's not his anecdote, as he had (presumably) no memory of the > >circumstances of his birth. > > Where did I say it was his anecdote? You mentioned it appeared in his autobiography. > >It's secondhand from his parents. > > And quite possibly on his Birth Certificate or equivalent. The fact of his birth and its location would be on the certificate. I suspect the brouhaha about the conscription and what not was not. > >One more > >step and we have a bona fide urban legend on our hands. > > Twaddle. Whee! - Kevin