oops 20th century usage of here at bp was actually divided into here & at bp

the full & undivided expression
here at bp
was first used here at bp in 2001
tho bp was written in full caps in that instance
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/3704
& clearly it was done regardless if not oblivious of
british petroleum

& the earliest known usage here at bp of the exact
phrase here at bp 
with the bp written in fullblown lower case
did not in fact occur until 2002

but the archetype & earliest known forerunner usage
in which the word here & the phrase at bp 
were however still separated by quite a few words
did actually occur back in the 20th century in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/740
where the idea at least of a virtual place called bp
was already quite clearly formed 


so 
we here at bp are at least a century if not a
millennium ahead of the rest of the world
in having any right of uti possidetis or effectivity
in the usage of the expression
here at bp

& the above is in correction of a slight misstatement
i just made in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/20098

but in addition 
or on another hand 
there has also been an actual & portentous connection
between boundarypoint & british petroleum since the
beginning of 2004
which is explained in the following excerpt from
message 12743 
reporting on the surprising outcome & literal
highlight of that years bp inaugural tour
which was incidentally also the first tour of its kind
ever performed in the name of bp
& thus the inaugural tour of our ongoing tour of
annual inaugural tours


route 2004 begins near freeport texas

then it runs thru shopping malls & coastal flats for
about 49 miles on the odometer
 
& since i drove it at night i didnt see much
except
the one great highlight
indeed there was no other great illumination anywhere
on the road
 
a bp mega refinery
 
i kid you not
thats bp as in you know what
 
quite a beauty of its kind too
 
in fact it was the grandest such thing i have ever
seen
 
so i have to figure 2004 is going to be a year of
magnificent refinement at boundarypoint 
mmm

end excerpt

& i note oddly enough in that case i did not say 
here at bp 
but just 
at boundarypoint
i imagine because i didnt want to confuse it with
british petroleum

but clearly it was already too late 
for the die had been cast & the impression received
 




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