[Gllug] UKUUG press release

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Jun 19 16:54:32 UTC 2008


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

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