Thanks for putting us right on that little matter, it just shows you how one
can keep putting foot in mouth throughout life, not necessarily to make ends
meet. I will inform the originator - just for the record.
It's a good example of "Send Three and Fourpence We're Going To A Dance"
Now, in passing, does anybody know the True origin of the line above,
which I am told is a [14-18] war-time example of verbal message passing gone
wrong.
The original message having been "Send Reinforcements We're Going To
Advance" or
so I am told.
Best wishes, Ron in Hong Kong
Where the noonday gun is still fired and mad dogs and some
of the remaining Englishmen still go out in the midday sun.
web-site http://members.xoom.com/TempleGarden/Default.htm
At 09:39 PM 08/18/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>>I enjoyed the sentiments but as a matter of scholarship, the quoted words
>>of RKs do not appear in the Book of Words: Values in Life, his address to
>>McGill University Oct 1907.I have the 1928 printing
>>Macmillan in the pocket edition. He does say
>>
>>Sooner or later, you will meet some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere
>>wealth does not appeal, whom the method of amassing that wealth do not
>>interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a
>>certain price.
>>
>>It goes on but the sentiment is directed solely at wealth and not power or
>>fame.
>from Jeffery Lewins
>Magdalene College &
>Engineering Department
>Cambridge
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