Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, thanks for noticing. :-) I always feared looking ridiculous at this time of year - my mother used to say: "Wear a hat when you go out, it looks like a little reindeer." Cheers Douglas Howard Ritter wrote: > I meant just the third paragraph--the first two were obvious groaners ;-) > > --howard > > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Howard Ritter wrote: > >> What I took at first to be a paragraph full of execrable misspellings >> turns out, on a hunch followed by reference to a dictionary, to be >> the most obscurely literate extended pun I've yet encountered on the >> LUG! My hat's off to you, Douglas! >> >> --howard >> >> >> On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> Edward - I think you might find that lepidoptera are moths and >>> butterflies :-) >>> Or am I just rabbiting on and splitting hares, or perhaps I just >>> have a bad hare day. >>> >>> Like the girl who had a pet rabbit and kept telling her suitors she >>> couldn't go out on a date because she was washing her hare that >>> evening. >>> >>> BTW: A budding lepidopterist was once overheard in a bookshop >>> ordering the book "Advice for Young Mothers". ;-) The book was out >>> of print, so he decided to burrow one about rabbits and hares - but, >>> when he got it home he had to leveret out of the box and, to his >>> horror, it was volume 3 and all about badgers. It turned out to be >>> one of a sett. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >