Curly brackets.

[Rodney Mills]

Hope I don't pish anyone off, the following info. is just meant to be informative.

There are three types of grammatical enclosures, two are used in writing and one in theoretical mathematics:

(1) Parentheses ( ), used to enclose material that is supplementary; interpretive, intrusive, and to end annoying interruption to sentence structure.

Example: Supplementary. Rodney D.R. Mills was a galley boy (known as Rod to his shipmates) on the "Good Hope Castle".

(2) Brackets [ ]. Are used to enclose corrections; omissions, interpolation (to alter), to insert words into the text, and to set-off uncertainties [?].

Example. Insertion. The author of Hamlet [William Shakespeare] certainly knew how to write a tragedy.

(3) Curly brackets { }. Used primarily in theoretical mathematics to enclose "sets". Sets can be anything, numbers, letters, colors etc.

Example. { }. Numbers. A set-theoretic complement. The first set minus the second set that contains all the elements of the first set that are not in the second set.

{124} - {134} = 2 (I warned you it is theoretical math). { } means this is a set with no elements. { a,b,c,} means the set consists of a,b,c.

I happen to enjoy mathematics and that's how I found out about "curly brackets".

Cheers, Rodney

[Ivan Cloherty]

Rodney, put that bottle of hooch back in the cabinet at once, your parents are due home at any minute

[Rodney Mills]

Sir Ivan:

How dare you Sir! I spent six years in Oz...it's plonk!

Ceers (sic), Rodney

P.s. There was no like button or Thanks on my screen...So you get a massage (sic).

[happy daze john in oz]

Oh Rodney how could you? Plonk is what the Poms call it, derived from Vin Blance during WW1.
Here in Oz it is , GROG OR THE AMBER FLUID. Plonk can only be drunk from a bottle concealed in a brown paper bag by an itenerant sitting on a park bench.

[Doc Vernon]

They also call it Plonk in South Afrca John!
There are many outers(Wineos) there that carry their Plonk around with them,tring to hide the bottle!
Mainly in the poorer Area i might add!
Cheers

[john sutton]

john in oz
last time i was in oz early 50,s(the only time)it was penfolds plonk sold in half gallon jugs.Apparently it was aussie sherry.not that I ever indulged?
john sutton

[alf corbyn]

i only knew plonk when i discovered penfolds in oz. i did like the advert with ithe bottle balanced in midair pouring the wine into the glass.

[Captain Kong]

Hi Rod,
I was on the GOOD HOPE CASTLE in 1959 then took her Hong Kong for the breakers
Were you there then?
Cheers
Brian.
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PS.
In 1955 I was known as the Penfold Kid in Melbourne. only 4 bob a bottle then at the bottle shop in the SIR CHARLES HOTHAM corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets. Now a back packers.

[Rodney Mills]

John in Oz.,

Yes I know...I spent many a wonderful evening sitting on park benches with Dr. Penfolds watching the sun come UP!

Doc Vernon,

Aah! District 6, a full paper sack and a view of Table Mountain...What memories.

John in Spain,

En Espana he usado una botella de cuero no es una dolsa de papel, el vino tinto que en mal estado mis camisas.

Alf Corbin,

What's a glass?

Captain,

25-2-53 to 13-3-55. Home Trade, London, Hamburg, Emden, London.

Cheers all, Rodney

[happy daze john in oz]

Dr. Penfolds brings back some memeories of my mispent youth. As a lad at the tender age of about 12 my mate and I could buy a bottle of either Penfolds Port or Sherry at the local Unwins for about half a crown. We hid the bottle behind the garden shed and each night would have a few egg cups full, no glasses available. THat went on for a couple of years, mum and dad never found out but mum often commented that I had a funny smell about me!!!!