Re: Informix customer support outside U.S

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.10.27.18.17.36.364211.10594@bloomberg.net... > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:54:20 -0500, Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > John Carlson wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:34 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>>More like Norfolk. And Good! > >> > >> Norfolk, Virginia????? That'd be more like the Middle Atlantic instead of > >> the Middle East . . . . .8-) > > > > This is probably going to shock you into a feeling of numbness, but Norfolk, > > Virginia was actually named after a place that's not even in America! I was > > talking about the pretty one, full of inbred East Anglians. :o) > > OOOOhhh! So, that's where the Virginian red-neck tendency towards in-breeding > came from! Actually, there is a theory, woven into a novel called The Dancing Men by Duncan Kyle, which holds that the so-called Witches of Salem were descendants of emigrants from a few particularly remote East Anglian (an area of England for our American readers) villages, and that they were actually suffering from a form of Huntingdon's Disease common to those villages, the hereditary disease having in part been encouraged by the lack of opportunities to inter-breed due to the remote locations. Some of the characteristics of chorea, of which Huntingdon's Disease is one variant, are involuntary movements which resemble dancing (the word chorea is itself derived from the Latin for dancing).