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Old June 17th 08, 04:42 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Abrasha
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Gary Wooding wrote:
Abrasha wrote:

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Ever heard of Google? It's a quaint little search engine, that let's
you search for images also. Try it, you may like it.

Have you ever heard of William Hartson who, many years ago, used to
write a column in "The Express" (a UK newspaper) under the name of
Beachcomber, and published the following tale...

'In the days of Elizabeth I,' he recounts, 'the ancient and honourable
post of Apostropher Royal was established after a humble greengrocer,
delivering a supply of potatoes to the royal household, drew the royal
attention to a misplaced apostrophe in a royal decree. Her Majesty
immediately created the above-mentioned office to control the quality
and distribution of apostrophes and deliver them in wheelbarrows to all
the greengrocers of England on the second Thursday of every month
(Apostrophe Thursday). Despite, or perhaps because of, the present
widespread use of misplaced greengrocer's apostrophes, there is still an
Apostropher Royal, one going by the name of Sir D'Anville O'M'Darlin,
who nowadays concerns himself with "such urgent issues as the tendency
of trendy publishers to replace quotation marks with colons and dashes",
the effect of which is that pairs of unwanted inverted commas can be
illegally shipped abroad, split down the middle to form low-grade
apostrophes and sold back to
an unwary British public'.





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