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>No offense intended, I just can't believe anyone would argue this one,
>
>Don
>
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> > You guys crack me up. Wasted money on al. foil? Can't see the bodge?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Don (and Gerry?), I think that was the point... Been a long week?
>
> > You guys may be "(one of those over-educated but cheap university types)"
> > who
> > I came to despise while working in a university town or maybe not, but I
>
>Ray and Greg were just havin' a little fun. Stick around for a while and
>you'll see more light hearted foolishness. The problem can be that it is
>sometimes hard to tell the jokers from the earnest. Usually the best bet
>is to give people on this list the benefit of the doubt.
<self tapping sheet metal screw>
Oh dear, all the dire warnings about sarcasm being lost on the Yanks I got
before I returned are proving true! Hey, guys ('my man'? Ooops, too long at
Cambridge), lighten up! Or is it "Chill" these days? Heck, repatriating after
a decade abroad (in a truly English speaking country!) is proving much
more difficult than I imagined......
Chris Half-Yank Half-Limey "I thought the people in Dundee talked funny until
I returned to New York" Wiggins (wiggins@mrcbs.med.yale.edu)
'57 VW Beetle (once driven around the block with a lawn mower gas tank in
place of the real gas tank-from the tales here that rates less as a
bodge and more as a well engineered repair)
'71 Austin America
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