Dave Larrington wrote:
> 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

You should have bought your own bridge!  :-)
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