[email protected] wrote: > On Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:34 PM [GMT+1=CET], > Nick <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > > BW (it may even have been BWB in those days) - showing their usual > > expert grasp of the waterways, and careful use of license revenue - > > put up a sign saying "No mooring in lock ponuds". Waterways World > > did a sort of caption competition on it, which was won by a rather > > witty explanation concerning Botch Locks - which helped me to > > remember it.
If I remember rightly it began "Lock Ponuds were invented by the great engineer James Birndley. They were used at the Botch Locks on the Stiffs & Worse Canal..." And no, it wasn't me that wrote it. > But is that any worse that one current televisual advertising-announcement, > which illustrates their check-the-history-of-a-used-motor-car service by > referring to a "Volkswagon"? No, it's not any worse. In fact it's much better, because it provided an opportunity for an amusing response. Unless somebody can write an equally amusing response to the car ad... Martin L
