boomer

MIKEY,

'sin mi profile!

mb

Gridlock Mikey

Boomer old boy, Could you send me ya E-mail address please, I'd like ya advice on a few things. Ta

MIKEY

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

I know where he is

Just like he knows where I am!

boomer

Aha!

but i am at work at the moment (thus can't read e-mail to the address in my profile)!

But i wasn't here ten minutes ago - then i was at The Malt Shovel at Barston.

But in a couple of days, i'll be in my garden?

Wierd?

mb

GranTurismo

Actually when Shakespear wrote "Wherfore art thou Romeo"

Juliet is saying "why have I fallen in love with a Capulet when I am a Montegue" due to the feud between the to families that makes the love forbidden. (or was it Motegue and Capulet)

Am I to understand that you have a hidden love for Boomer that you cannot procalim due to a family feud?

boomer

This is a common mistake, due to the poor lifetime of the early floppy disks in Shakespears' days. The oxide had a poor bonding to the polymer substrate, which was not corrected until the late thirties as part of the development of radar.

Anyway, the original words (which are often mis-quoted) say "Wear four Hart-throws", where a "Hart" was a cape designed by Joshua Hart in the middle ages. It was customary to "throw" these capes over one's shoulders when leaving an ale-house, in order to politely alert others that you intend leaving (in much the same way as we look at our watches and say "gosh, is that the time?".

Popular folk-lore at the time said that these capes could protect you from musket-shot, as well as short-bow (but not long-bow) at all but point-blank range. As an aside, point-blank was a term coined in the pre-metric days, when there was no such thing as a decimal point, so it was left "blank" in documents to avoid confusion!

Anyway, if you were in big trouble - for example, making mocking comments (or posting photos) of, say, MichelleWRX, a single Hart cape would not be sufficient to protect you. Two Harts may help minor scuffles, but at the price of three-score groats and ten for a single Hart, not many people could afford two. However, the gentry purchased the whole Hart business, and as a show of their position in society, wore FOUR Hart capes at the same time. This was the ultimate show of power!!

Anyway, floppies have got a lot better these-days! In fact CD-Rs and very common, along with Zip drives, Jazz drives and even solid-state media.

Capes may make a comeback, but will never be the same!

mb

GranTurismo

I shall never again try to raise the intellectual level of scoobynet.

Poo, Wee, Bum

GranTurismo

Oh by the way.....

Its also "Alas Poor Yorik I knew him Horatio"

Not "....I knew him well"


Or at lease I bloody hope so, otherwise I look a right Plonker.

boomer

... now H-0-ratio was the proportion of Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms in a given map (or strictly in the truncated medieval term, A(t)las).

I'll get mi Hart,

mb

p.s. You can still pick up Yoriks at car boot sales, and the occasional antiques market, at an absolute bargain price (but watch out for the ones with green trim!).