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Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] First PCB

From: "Tony Smith" <ajsmith@...>
Date: 2007-01-13

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> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] First PCB
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> Not starting a sentence with "but", not ending a sentence
> with a preposition, not splitting an infinitive, and many
> others are artificial rules in English. The got their start
> in Victorian times when the emerging middle class wanted to
> distinguish itself from the working class. It is generally
> safe to ignore these particular rules if the sentence sounds
> better violating the rule.
>


Too right! Down with all this modern crap! If it was good enough for
great-great-great-great-grandpappy, it's good enough for the rest of ya.
Bring back vacuum tubes, F-cells and accumulators. Silicon chips, bah
humbug. And I'll have you know my car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and
that's the way I like it.

Someone should go & measure up Queen Lizzie, so we know how long a yard is
supposed to be.

Tony