Date   : Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:30:27 +0100
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: Was Exile now off topic 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin" <cwhill@...>
To: "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Was Exile now off topic


> Maybe so (I also have the same degree as yourself although probably a few
> less burns). The problem is, one can often see one's own mistakes in those
> posts which can result in a reluctance to contribute, so as not to
advertise
> one's own fallibilities.
> To be pedantic about the use of an apostrophe or two seems, to me, to
> indicate a case of "get a life" more than "intellectuals only please". At
> least I hope so.
> Perhaps we should have an entrance examination before joining?
> Colin Hill (expecting to be banned at any moment)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
> To: <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Was Exile now off topic
>
>
> > > It really isn't nice to be told that you are thick
> > > by someone who probably has several university degrees when
> > > you have left school with nothing as some people do.
> > It is pleasurable though to correct people who have university degrees
and
> > think they know much more, when one has only a degree from the
university
> of
> > life and burns from the soldering iron to prove it :-)
> >
> > -Mark

I really must apologise for a wicked moment there. It was intentional that I
top posted and also replied to both the originator and the list.
I can be evil too.  :-)
Colin Hill