gah! I hate the new string syntax

[Steve Holden]

"chris" <chrislamb at btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:tN5o6.2746$eH3.14913 at NewsReader...
> > at latest since the 19th century; in America, it appears this is
normally
> > introduced in the 6th or 7th grades (ages 11-12, for those of you in
> > inferior countries <wink>
>
> In Scotland that kind of stuff is pre-School! <wink-back>
>
> Chris

Ha! As an Englishman married to a Scot I'm not going to let you get away
with that one: this is classic Scottish braggadocio [I expect Italian
education form tne martellibot about that]. Brass neck, as we simple
Yorkshire folk would term it.

Still, at least we can remind all that Scotland and England are different
countries on c.l.py.

Lest people might think this is intended as criticism rather than humo(u)r,
I hasten to add that I lived in Scotland for three years before moving to
the USA, and found the Scots to be extraordinarily warm and generous people.

As I put it to a taxi-driver on Scotland recently who asked me how I got on
in Scotland "I find that once we get past 'Engl***h' and 'bas***d' we can
get on all right". He correctly pointed out that this was a racist remark,
but we got on fine and agreed that nobody was offended.

So, for the record, they don't get their mathmatics degrees until fourth
grade in Scotland.

coming-from-the socialist-people's-republic-of-yorkshire-and-therefore-
    not-quite-as-english-as-others-we-won't-mention-y'rs  - steve