Re: Ask EU: Sprayer repairs

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:36:23 +0000, BrritSki <away@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Siderius Nuncius wrote:
"Stephen" <stephenbowden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

I saw a great example of this in a slightly different context. Sky
News has a rolling banner along the bottom of the screen with the
latest "headlines". These are virtually unpunctuated, and all upper
case. They scroll across the screen so you can't tell how they are
going to end when you start reading them. I was struck by the one
which started:

DOCTOR WHO FAILED TO SPOT BABY P'S INJURIES AFTER MONTHS of ABUSE...

Commas wouldn't have helped this, but I noticed in RT a programme whose
title was written as "Take That Come To Town", which made me do a very large
double-take. To my intense relief it seems to be about a popular beat combo
called Take That.

Now I've got "Ruby, don't take that come to town" running
(yuk) through my head. Cheers !

I was happily unaware of what you were all going on about until you
posted this. The power of a good C & W song :)

.

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