It's just too late already, my eyelids are tickling my toes by now, a sign I
should go to bed, but I'll get back to all this tomorrow or, at least, by
Saturday.
Best
Árni
--
Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
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on 10/31/02 12:55 PM, Robin Hamilton at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> "
> Refresh my memory, Rob or Arni, but as well as 'thorn' did we not once have
> a little friend called 'wynn'?
> "
>
> The slashed thorn is the medial -- wynn is Arni's initial bollocksed p.
> (Sorry, i can only ever do anything outside the 256 ascii set if i cut and
> paste.)
>
> The Two Lost Letters are the thorn and the wynn (terrible twins, as they
> were identically pronouned [at least in the Real World -- dunno how the hell
> this plays in the land of the glaciers]. Then there's the yogh, which
> afterlifes as zed, or if you're being particulate, 3.
>
> But look, Arni is the expert on this -- he lives in the shadow of the smoke
> from Snaefels Junkel. I'm a mere illiterate Denniston kid who mashed his
> left knee tobogganing down the hill behind the Palais on a copy of the Beano
> annual perched on a single roller-skate.
>
> Problem with that was there were no brakes, and if you were touching fifty
> when you encountered a three-foot-high brick wall ... Unfunny.
>
> Robin
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