On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 20:47 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:
> I would retire to the comfy chair, with a glass of port and the
>  faithful hound at my slippered feet. I'd turn on the reading light and
>  open the manual, radiant in the knowledge that every page turned meant
>  a new thing learned.

Aye, and not far wrong would ye be -- unless you happened to have
something else more interesting to read. The classifieds section of the
paper; a peer-reviewed journal article; government standards; a history
of creosote; the police blotter; a 1965 Sears and Roebuck catalog . . .
any of an number of items less interesting than Bentley.

(Written in full knowledge that when I ask the question, "What is this?"
I am sponging off the diligence of people like you who actually pore
through and commit to memory the vast amount of detailed information in
Bentley.)

-- RJS