Neil Arlidge wrote:
> Steve Haywood wrote:
>> 'Aficionados have long been familiar with the "Wet Dog" concept,
>> where the lovely smell of dog is intensified by its being wet. It's
>> amazing how recent was the discovery of the "Wet Man" concept. You
>> take an existing man, in clothes, and devise some reason why he is
>> wet in his clothes. And despite the low probability of this event
>> actually happening in the world, what with few water-based
>> activities being so sudden that you don't have time to take your
>> shirt off, the loveliness of man is so intensified by his being wet
>> that almost all films with any romantic element will also include
>> some hydra-romance.'
> I *don't* think she would have said that if she had met me after I
> slithered out of Harlam Hill Lock at the end of the Ancholme...

Nor when some mates and I were obliged to swim across the Pocklington Canal 
circa 1974

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Barley, barley, barley, world cruise.  You never see a farmer on
a bike.

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