The greengrocer's apostrophe has reached Berlin.
Adam Funk
bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything on the sign except
that s was in upper-case.
--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
[Poe]
UC
Adam Funk wrote:
> The sign on a FACHBAUMARKT advertised TOILETTEN and various other
> bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything on the sign except
> that s was in upper-case.
On to Vienna, then Moscow!
Otto Bahn
> The sign on a FACHBAUMARKT advertised TOILETTEN and various other
> bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything on the sign except
> that s was in upper-case.
ISAGPlay: "Waiting For Bidet"
--oTTo--
Rejnold Byzio
That's rather "First we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan".
Rejnold
--
"Never show fear to a computer ... they can smell it.
Boldly go to Start, Settings, Add/Remove programs, and shout,
'For god and country'. If your heart is pure and your quest
righteous, all will be well" -- Paul Young
UC
Rejnold Byzio wrote:
> "UC" <uraniumc...@yahoo.com>:
>
> >
> > Adam Funk wrote:
> >> The sign on a FACHBAUMARKT advertised TOILETTEN and various
> >> other bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything
> >> on the sign except that s was in upper-case.
> >
> > On to Vienna, then Moscow!
>
> That's rather "First we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan".
's über Alles!
David DeLaney
"Has he come yet?"
"He has not come."
Dave "when will he arrive?" DeLaney
PS: Still oddly on-topic for all three, huzzah!
--
\/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
plorkwort
Rejnold Byzio <rby...@netscape.net> wrote:
>>"UC" <uraniumc...@yahoo.com>:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>>> other bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything
>>> on the sign except that s was in upper-case.
>> On to Vienna, then Moscow!
>That's rather "First we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan".
They sentenced me to twenty pages of backspace
For trying to change typography from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to proofread them
First we take an em-dash, then take a hyphen
I'm guided by a stet on the galley
I'm guided by a caret in the margin
I won't stop even when I see three hashes
First an exclamation, then we take a question
I thank you for those page proofs that you sent me
Apostrophe, plywood parenthesis
I edit every night and now I'm ready
First we take italics, then an emphasis
plorkwort.
--
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*.
-- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"
Matthew L. Martin
> In article <eem875$5gq$1...@online.de>,
> Rejnold Byzio <rby...@netscape.net> wrote:
>>> "UC" <uraniumc...@yahoo.com>:
>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>>> other bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's". Everything
>>>> on the sign except that s was in upper-case.
>>> On to Vienna, then Moscow!
>> That's rather "First we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan".
>
> They sentenced me to twenty pages of backspace
> For trying to change typography from within
> I'm coming now, I'm coming to proofread them
> First we take an em-dash, then take a hyphen
>
> I'm guided by a stet on the galley
> I'm guided by a caret in the margin
> I won't stop even when I see three hashes
> First an exclamation, then we take a question
>
> I thank you for those page proofs that you sent me
> Apostrophe, plywood parenthesis
> I edit every night and now I'm ready
> First we take italics, then an emphasis
Is that EM'pha-sis or em-PHA'-sis?
Matthew (I mean, the almost rhyme)
--
Thermodynamics and/or Golf for dummies: There is a game
You can't win
You can't break even
You can't get out of the game
Adam Funk
Caret's, apple's, Rome, Berlin!
We will fight, we will win!
--
When Toad found himself immured in a dank and noisome dungeon, ... he
flung himself at full length on the floor, and shed bitter tears, and
abandoned himself to dark despair. [Kenneth Grahame]