Fame for a group member:

>      English?
>      First, Wes Stephenson, who wrote last week's Livewire, has had to 
> endure some flak!
>
>      Here's what caused all the trouble: "The first win by an 
> Englishman for years, the oldest winner of the open, the first 
> consecutive win by a European for over 100 years, the first win by an 
> amateur. Going into the final day of the Open golf the possibilities 
> were endless and in the end Irishman Padraig Harrington stepped ahead 
> of a tight field at Royal Birkdale to take the Open for the second 
> year running. "
>
>      Some of you thought Wes was suggesting (heaven forbid!) that 
> Padraig Harrington is English.
>
>      It's one of those carefully constructed paragraphs you have to 
> read very carefully - possibly several times. In other words: our 
> subtlety fell flat on its face for some of you.
>
>      So we had plenty of slightly perplexed messages and one enraged 
> Mick from Northolt. He was so put out he couldn't sleep: "Sorry for 
> posting at 5:30 am. I couldn't sleep. Lord Reith revolving in his 
> grave kept me awake."
>
>      Sorry Mick, we hope our syntax won't keep you awake in future! 
> And Wes, do you think the problem might have been avoided by the 
> careful use of a colon?
>

WTG Mick.
-- 
Jackie

"Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats."
Dr. Douglas Busch

"Jackie" <buckhousecrew*Spam-Me-Not*@btinternet.com> wrote in message 
news:6f9hlvFaer71U1@mid.individual.net...
> Fame for a group member:
>

>> Mick from Northolt. He was so put out he couldn't sleep: "Sorry for 
>> posting at 5:30 am. I couldn't sleep. Lord Reith revolving in his grave 
>> kept me awake."
>>
>>      Sorry Mick, we hope our syntax won't keep you awake in future! And 
>> Wes, do you think the problem might have been avoided by the careful use 
>> of a colon?
>>
>
> WTG Mick.
> -- 
> Jackie

I had heard that Mick is always very careful about how he uses his 
colon.....:-)

Cheers

-Ar^ch

On Jul 29, 11:31 pm, "Phil. E. Styne" 
wrote:
> "Jackie" <buckhousecrew*Spam-Me-N...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>
> news:6f9hlvFaer71U1@mid.individual.net...
>
> > Fame for a group member:
>
> >> Mick from Northolt. He was so put out he couldn't sleep: "Sorry for
> >> posting at 5:30 am. I couldn't sleep. Lord Reith revolving in his grave
> >> kept me awake."
>
> >>      Sorry Mick, we hope our syntax won't keep you awake in future! And
> >> Wes, do you think the problem might have been avoided by the careful use
> >> of a colon?
>
> > WTG Mick.
> > --
> > Jackie
>
> I had heard that Mick is always very careful about how he uses his
> colon.....:-)

;-) Indeedy!

I may have misread the original, but it was put in such a clumsy
fashion that I'm not too bothered.  It deserved to be misread, IMHO.

Cheers,
   Mick.