I loved "the history of creosote" , an old story but hasn't aged a bit.

Sponge away RJS, but expect the teasing once in a while, all good natured of course, right?

:)

alistair

On 2011-07-10, at 9:06 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> 
> 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
>