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! :-) http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T97_Imag/poklftb.jpg -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest Follow the travelled TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk Visit this site and help save our waterways from the DEFRA cuts http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
