[Gllug] UKUUG press release

[Ryan Cartwright]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:44:59PM +0100, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>> John Winters wrote:
>>> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> Copper bottomed?  I have no idea what that refers to.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing
>> Or a slightly more concise one (first hit if you Google "copper
>> bottomed")...
>>
>> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/copper-bottomed.html
> 
> Oh dear. Does that mean that no one understood my contrast of a 'copper bottomed'
> standard and 'setting to sea in a sieve' and the 'Jumblies' -- a piece
> on nonsense verse by Edward Lear:
> 
> 	http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

I got the jumblies bit and from there assumed the copper bottomed part
as it was that which I had not come across before. Googling was just to
confirm my suspicions.

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Ryan Cartwright
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/poster/8833
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