> which give the impression of someone with the intellectual
> capacities of a garden gnome,
dave -- don't knock garden gnomes. Major aside, they're descended from a
strike by 18thC professional hermits.
... leaving aside that the Prof Herms tended to skive off and down a few
pints in the local hostelry, it ended up as simply too expensive to employ
them.
... so the Middle Classes exchanged the hermits for statues.
... and as the gardens got smaller, you ended up with the friggin things
fishing for goldfish in a pool.
I'd love to document this, but I can't -- the only person who +can+ is
locked tight in Broadmore, as he developed this interesting habit of biting
the pages out of books in the Bodlean.
Look I KNOW this is odd, but honest, it's true.
Robin
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