There is - was - the Peter Cooke joke from my yoof of a blind mine - sorry, man -- misreading and coming up with some unfortunate statement he pauses and says "I'm sorry. I'll feel that again" And then the outpouring of rage at his bas taste L Mine was a genuine mistype. I was still thinking of _my yoof_; but I liked it so I left it in On Thu, September 2, 2010 15:42, Douglas Barbour wrote: > How could we miss it? > > > Touching, that. > > > Doug > On 1-Sep-10, at 10:50 AM, Mark Weiss wrote: > > >> Print will survive in the form of braille for the foreseeable future >> (note pun). >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us > the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of > the community. > > Oscar Wilde > > -- "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength --- Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London