On 18 Sep 2008, at 12:36, Steve Haywood wrote: > 2008/9/18 Roger Millin [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Bob, there's trying to convince Adrian by sound logical argument or >> there's beating your head against a brick wall, take your pick. > > I have found from experience that they both amount to beating your > head > against a brick wall.
Kerchink . . . . . now I get it. Ref WW World P107. I realise now that a polemicist must be somebody who provides a brick wall for others to beat their heads against. We are clearly blessed hereabouts by the presence of one capable of olympic standard polemicism. Previously I had understood that involved elevation to a great height in an apparently precarious and unsupported manner. Beeky
