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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 07 March 2009 - Volume 07<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Humor" 2009.03.07 (03) [E]</span><br>
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On 08/03/2009, at 6:32 AM,<span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span>Â Â wrote:</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">G
B Shaw was not the easiest of people to live with, having an irascible nature.
One day on receiving the post, he exploded in fury at having been addressed as
G B Shawm " Can't people be accurate! Can't people know how to
spell! </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span>My
father was a compositor, typesetter, all his working life and worked for the Edinburgh printing firm
that produced Shaw's works at the time.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He reckoned
that Shaw was one of the most atrocious spellers among author clients. Said
authors when visiting the works used to leave gifts of beer money for the lads
who got their books out, Shaw, that dedicated Socialist and champion of
Workers' Rights never gifted a farthing. By their works.........</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Regards</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Tom
Mc Rae</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Brisbane</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">AUSTRALIA</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">"Oh
wad some power the Giftie gie us,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Tae
see oorsels as ithers see us</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Robert
Burns</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
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