At 04:15 pm 24/01/2006 -0500, you wrote: >But you left out a few verses.
Yep. I was hoping someone wouldn't be able to resist latching on to that one. <g> ... > "I am Sir Brian? Oh, no! > I am Sir Brian? Who's he? > I haven't got any title, I'm Botany -- > Plain Mr. Botany (B)." > >------------- > >And I can't help wondering, why "Botany"? It seems like an odd name. >And why does the whole thing end with "Botany B", as though there's >something significant about that name? The penal colony in Australia >was Botany Bay, IIRC, and it may still have existed when that was >written. Did Milne have some obscure connection in mind here, or what? Well spotted Stephen. That is just the kind of alertness to coincidences which may not be - and curiosity about them that a good research scientist needs. 8-) Frank
