Re: Short message

From: Terry Given (my_name_at_ieee.org)
Date: 03/17/05


Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:56:38 +1300

John Fields wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2005 01:50:57 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>
>
>>Enough of this competitive brevity. While John Fields sholud be
>>congratulated for saying nothing - because he never seems to have
>>anything useful to say - twenty messages of congratulation seems to
>>represent rather too much of a good thing.
>>
>>-----------
>>Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
>
>
> ---
> There was an old man from Nijmegen
> whose rhetoric often went beggin'
> for nice things to say;
> instead he'd just bray
> amidst all the rest of his squeggin'
>

Very good.

Cheers
Terry



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