Re: Asterisks

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

H*lm*ts falls into the second group.  It is Bad Form to mention the
H-word :-)

On uk.rec.sheds they use ROT13 to protect delicate sensibilities from
the horrors of words such as "new" and "work" (shudder).

We might, then, consider adopting as our preferred form the word uryzrg.

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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:05:02 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

H*lm*ts falls into the second group.  It is Bad Form to mention the
H-word :-)

On uk.rec.sheds they use ROT13 to protect delicate sensibilities from
the horrors of words such as "new" and "work" (shudder).

We might, then, consider adopting as our preferred form the word uryzrg.

Coincidentally, that's the noise made by one scraping along the pavement.

Colin

Colin Blackburn said:

Can I mention it? I saw a cyclist in Newcastle a couple of days ago. He
was wearing a climbing helmet.

Was he on a mountain bike?

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Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:51:09 +0100, davek <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Ah, that's better - glad to get that little lot off my chest.

Education is a wonderful thing. :-)

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Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

you know? said:

Gawnsoft said:

I can, to this day, remember the extreme disappointment I felt when,
at the age of seven, I discovered that 'phart' wasn't the spelling in
general use.

I remember Fyffe Robertson proposing the abbrevition "phart" to
describe installations, "happenings", blank pieces of canvas, piles of
bricks and all other forms of "phoney art" :-)

I can just hear that in his wonderful voice.

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Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:06:59 GMT, Dave Kahn <[email hidden]>

wrote in message : said:

Quoted message said:

I remember Fyffe Robertson proposing the abbrevition "phart" to
describe installations, "happenings", blank pieces of canvas, piles of
bricks and all other forms of "phoney art" :-)

Quoted message said:

I can just hear that in his wonderful voice.

Yes, delivered with just the right amount of withering scorn :-)

Guy
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