[Info-vax] typical!!!! it's all bottoms with you isn't it?? - Basil Fawlty

[Richard Maher]

Hi Steven,

"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c573c290-d6f3-4b10-9f4d-e8a3001482a5 at h30g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
>    This conundrum has been bothering me for some time, now.  I
> seem to be completely lost.  Given a choice between "A Pocket"
> and "Two Boys", I haven't been able to make a decision.
> What's in the pocket?  Who are the two boys?  Which should I
> pick?  It's very troubling.

This is about punctuation, spelling, and/or gramma isn't it?

Cheers Richard Maher

PS. I do not wear my inability to speak English as a badge of honour (like
so many east-end tossas I used to work with :-) But 'Strain is the best I
can do. (Imagine my discomfort at, when trying to learn German, having to
ask for a translation of Nominative, Accusative, and Dative!)

Should there be a comma or hyphen in there? Or should "Boys" be dropped all
together? I don't know.

OTOH, if you've never seen Oliver the musical (and I've certainly never read
Dickens' novel as, you guessed it, I don't read apart from the Paper and
Manuals) it's well worth getting out. (Les Miserables just had a run again
in Perth which, although not a patch on London, was well worth seeing. But
now I'm starting to feel like I'm over-sharing :-)

Anyway the analogy/parallel I sought to draw was to some HP/VMS
apparatchik's continuing Fagin-esque approach to customer relations. And I'm
sure that he's Reviewing. . the Situation. .

Ah it's no fun if you won't sing and make me explain :-)