But of course!

On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 22:23 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:

> 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?
>
> :)
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> alistair
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> On 2011-07-10, at 9:06 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
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> >
> > 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
> >
>