tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35190226.post7301727852495181554..comments2024-02-28T07:12:55.042-08:00Comments on View of the marching fishes: Dear Sirstrasmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03332469508592595136noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35190226.post-23972286755115322912008-09-22T05:42:00.000-07:002008-09-22T05:42:00.000-07:00Ha! Way to go Amynah. I love it.Ha! Way to go Amynah. I love it.Natalie Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11385589230546295487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35190226.post-23324976106370300362008-09-20T19:31:00.000-07:002008-09-20T19:31:00.000-07:00And now a visual addendum to Amynah's Letter to th...And now a visual addendum to Amynah's Letter to the Economist...<BR/>Step 1: [Amynah points two fingers at her eyes]<BR/>Step 2: [Amynah points two fingers at the Economist's eyes]<BR/>Step 3: [Amynah draws hand across throat]<BR/>I must say that has become one of our favourite gestures...<BR/>TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35190226.post-11962117697975980182008-09-20T05:55:00.000-07:002008-09-20T05:55:00.000-07:00She is quick - lots of time to come up with witty ...She is quick - lots of time to come up with witty comebacks, while walking from handbag store to handbag store.<BR/><BR/>Didn't realize you had a blog going - I'll add you to my links forthwith, so that you might benefit from the flood of my dozens, errr, several... few? pair? of readers.strasmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03332469508592595136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35190226.post-90656271910239335332008-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:002008-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:00Good for Amynah - a well delivered blow against so...Good for Amynah - a well delivered blow against some pretty backward writing...<BR/><BR/>BBC Radio 4 does a good programme on Thursday afternoons, called 'The Material World', on science in the general area of geology. A couple of weeks ago it was from Liverpool, 'capital of culture' (surely a contradiction in terms there somewhere), and specifically from the Cavern Club where the Beatles played. So he kept quoting from various Beatles songs, often simply in speech, backed a few seconds later by a short burst of the music. This week, he read out an e-mail from a woman who congratulated him on having at one point had an all-woman panel dealing with one of the subjects he examined, but then criticising him for having signed off saying 'thank you, girls.'<BR/><BR/>He pointed out that his words had actually been 'all I have to say is thank you girls' (I think I've got that right). And added 'they weren't actually my words' - followed by the line of the Beatles song he'd been quoting.<BR/><BR/>I suppose the put-down is the other way around from Amynah's, but I liked it just as much.<BR/><BR/>Putters-down of the world stand up! You have nothing to lose but your patronisers, you have your dignity to win!David Beesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00393977902379776532noreply@blogger.com