Curly brackets.

[Keith Tindell]

Hi Geof, we must have gone to school with the same lad, when i was there he was known as* snotty Niagra*, as you say , mesmerising to watch, KT

[alf corbyn]

when i was driving we had one driver called greensleeves, he was always wiping his nose on his sleeve

[j.sabourn]

78 bottles penfold I make it. Cheers John Sabourn

[Evan Lewis]

Though haven't tried it myself.Have it on good authority,via a few B.T C.rew. They happened to be in Fremantle, on a Sunday. Whether their Funds were exhausted ,or no Sub. was available,not sure.

Anyhow, couple of recent references to the old Doctor ,Penfold's. A bottle of same .went to Auction ,not very long ago ,realised some sixtythou. dollars.

The recent visit of Charles and Camilla to the S.Australia Winery. Has dignified the Brew further.
Camilla ,Skoled! it no bother.
CHEERS!

[j.sabourn]

Thank goodness someone can remember the proper title of the brew. I always knew it as Dr.Penfolds. The average Australian does not remember this, so must have been a seamans term. Used to be the cheapest plonk or thereabouts going. Now as already stated one of the best on the market. Either peoples tastes have taken a downward turn, or the brew has been transformed. Cheers John Sabourn

[Captain Kong]

Dr, Penfolds used to be four shillings a bottle, [Aus. 16s and 8 pence to the Pound.] so it was around 3 & 5d a bottle. That was in the bottle shop in the `Sir Charles Hotham` on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets in Melbourne. 1955.
Now in our Supermarket Penfolds is around £8 a bottle.
Cheers
Brian.

[Rodney Mills]

Captain Kong was the first to marvel how this thread segued from grammar and theoretical math to who knows what and where. Ivan Cloherty initiated it by alluding to the HOOTCHinoo Indians of coastal Alaska, historical makers of illicit and inferior liquor [hooch]. Closely followed by John in Oz, with an educational instruction on the concealment of Dr. Penfolds elixir in environmentally friendly brown paper sacks, and later a reminiscence about his childhood girl friend Snotty White. What followed was a truly courageous act of wine tasting valor, an instructive comparison on the similarities twixt embalming fluid and plonk by connoisseur Geoff Anderson...what a palate! I would never have the nerve (or the stomach) to attempt that, thank you Geoff. More childhood chums preceded an appeal by Jack Jenkins for a full stop (period in the U.S.A.) and the inverted comma as a thread. Now this entreaty staggered my imagination. I could imagine what you lot could do to a "dangling modifier" and a "colon". I then got to thinking perhaps our lady shipmates could do justice to a "period", a "faulty period" and what it could lead to, "contractions". How about true life confessions, "How I broke my "hyphen [-]," or "I'm sad I'm no longer a "virgule [/]" ". I wonder how long it would take for someone to enquire if my former Townie (Southend-on-Sea) Tony, now in Cebu wears a "diphthong". How about a leap (swish?) from HOMOnyms to Queens on the Castle boats..."Interrupters" and children opening the bedroom door at an inopportune moment? "Redundancy" to the decline of the Merchant Navy? "Subordination", a Galley Boy to Ship's Cook? "Ellipsis" (...)...and how the sky went dark in the middle of one... a "dependent clause", Santa quitting the toy business and moving in with y'all. As for "agreement" I doubt it could happen. Finally a "schwa", an upside-down lower case letter e a pronunciation symbol. It stumped me...sounds foreign to me...sort of Welsh.

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells"

Dr. Suess

Cheers, Rodney, and this will teach you to take the p... out of pretty "curly brackets".

[Captain Kong]

I dont know what to say after that, Rodney,
You just about covered everything. You have rendered me speechless.
But it has been a very interesting thread with all its travels there and back.
Cheers
Brian.

[David Williams]

Hi Rodney.
Thanks for the informtion,I used to lie awake
at night thinking about them !!!!
Dave Williams

[David Williams]

Hi Rodney.
Once it sinks in,and I get the gist of what you said,
I will let you know if I really like it or not.
dave Williams