Yup, that was sorta why I chose "wot" over "what." Us B.Igns notice the subtext in these things ...
[sympathetic cluck a la Church Lady]You'd have been better served by your not-quite-a-public-school (KES went the other way. It was a wanna-pretend-to-be-a-public-school) if they'd at least offered you an ASCII keyboard, as opposed to the ISO-8859 (Peterborough/Jesuit) keyboard supplied by the English department.
And English masters can be such bitches, can't they? [/sympathetic cluck a la Church Lady]
But, seriously, nobody (least of all an English teacher) should have the temerity to put somebody off writing. Unless that somebody is Jonathan Coe. I went to school with Jonathan Coe, and I can safely say that he hasn't improved much over the years ... and from a very low level to start with.
Wrock And Rite On, baci!
This site is trying to sell me "Wholesale hip & cool designer dog clothes." Do I know something they don't? Where's my tin-foil hat? Michael Faraday, I need you now ...
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Re: Mellies and Fries with Mayo, please
Date: 2008-01-11 11:54 pm (UTC)[sympathetic cluck a la Church Lady]You'd have been better served by your not-quite-a-public-school (KES went the other way. It was a wanna-pretend-to-be-a-public-school) if they'd at least offered you an ASCII keyboard, as opposed to the ISO-8859 (Peterborough/Jesuit) keyboard supplied by the English department.
And English masters can be such bitches, can't they?
[/sympathetic cluck a la Church Lady]
But, seriously, nobody (least of all an English teacher) should have the temerity to put somebody off writing. Unless that somebody is Jonathan Coe. I went to school with Jonathan Coe, and I can safely say that he hasn't improved much over the years ... and from a very low level to start with.
Wrock And Rite On, baci!
This site is trying to sell me "Wholesale hip & cool designer dog clothes." Do I know something they don't? Where's my tin-foil hat? Michael Faraday, I need you now ...