And then there was the time when Winston was appointed First Sea Lord
(Secretary for the Navy). The appointment was seen as a poisoned
chalice as there were considerable problems to be overcome. An
unsympathetic parliamentarian goaded Winnie by asking, "Well, how goes
the Navy today?"
"Same as always, rum, sodomy and the lash."
73
Kevin
VK3DAP / ZL2DAP
Fred Jensen wrote:
The version I heard had a staffer marking up a memo Winnie had written,
and noting that he had ended a sentence with a preposition. He
reportedly penciled in the margin, "This is an insubordination up with
which I will not put."
Regarding the original subject of this thread, my wife knows nothing
about ham radio, nor does she really care beyond the fact that I enjoy
it thus giving her license to enjoy her hobbies (knitting, needlepoint
[about as expensive as ham radio] and gardening). However, I am
colorblind and there is no light, torch, or flashlight that will make
the color codes any more readable, so she learned the code, takes the
resistors under her Ott light and sorts them for me by value. Wasn't
necessary on the K2, of course. Thanks Eric and Wayne.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Andy McMullin wrote:
On 10 Apr 2006, at 14:18, Dave Sublette wrote:
Winston Churchill once defined the United States and Great Britain
as, "Two peoples separated by a common language."
K4TO
And he also said that "a preposition is a thing never to end a
sentence with". My favourite though is the reported exchange with
Lady Astor:
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