Doug, Andrew-- Thank you both. Hal "[News is] what somebody doesn't want you to know. All the rest is advertising." --Dan Rather Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:18 PM, andrew burke wrote: > Good one, Hal. > > When you speak of 'the children in hospital'. they become the > subject of > that sentence. The next sentence refers to 'them', and says there's > 'no good > reason' for them, which to my mind refers back to the children. I > found this > confusing. > > Andrew > > > > > On 25/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Whew. Sharper than... >> >> Great stuff, Hal. >> >> Doug >> On 24-Jan-08, at 7:26 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote: >> >>> Gambit >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> >> Nothing I'd read >> prepared me for a body this unfair. >> >> John Newlove >> > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/