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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'e = mgh'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK!
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:34:00 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: Lionel B
>Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48

> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>=20
>> And don't even get me started
>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
>=20
> Actually, may I get you started?
>=20
> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has
> come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":=20

  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
delightfully ironic twist!

>     Fresh Tomato's,  =A31.50/kg
>=20
>> P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos
>=20
> Or, at my local corner shop:
>=20
>     Falling Hippo's - this week only! -  12p/kg
>=20
> Now that's some bang for your buck.

  Well, it depends how high they're falling from.  Just in terms of
gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot more value-for-money
from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the top of a tower block
than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a coffee-table!

  Of course YMMV in a reversed-gravity field or if you have a tachyon-based
hippo.

    cheers,
      DaveK
--=20
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....