>Cotty wrote:
>
>> [. . .]
>>
>>I have a 3 CD set kept as MP3s on iTunes and was listening last night as
>>I sat reading email in a hotel room near London. The Port was in the back
>>of the Land Rover - a Christmas present to a colleague that never made
>>it. The peanuts I grabbed from home before I left.
>>
>
>Don't you just love the unintentional ambiguity of the English language?
>As a professional engineer, and sometimes technical writer, for some 
>reason that ambiguity bugs me more and more the older I get.
>Well, not so much 'bugs me' as it stands out like a sore thumb!
>Which WAS it that "never made it?"
>Was it the colleague that didn't make it, or the port that never GOT to 
>the colleague?  <g>


LOL. That was the Port talking....



Cheers,
  Cotty


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