Clever marketing.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

I see your ANGLE & there's a joke in there but I'll not go down that road

There's also an oblique referrence to a Hyndburn politican .... the comment is supposed to have been made by Gregory the Great, who, I believe, became Pope.

I'm surprised that my comment hasn't been yanked by the mods, because it ain't in English ... but, there was a time, long, long ago, in a world now lost, that knowing what "non angli, sed angeli" meant was taught in schools all over Britain. ... it was right up there with Alfred burning the cakes, C'nut telling the sea to go take a hike, 1066 and all that, Nelson's signal to the fleet etc., etc, etc. Starting to feel old I am (thanks Yoda) ...

[cashman]

jeez ya must be old mate. i never learnt it.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by cashman

jeez ya must be old mate. i never learnt it.

That's me, older than dirt .... but I definitely remember an illustration in a hist'ry book at All Sinners in Clayton .... oh, and if you want to learn in school, it is adviseable to stay awake, or at least, take some time off from dipping the pigtails of the girl in front of you into your inkwell Hey, that's me: one of the last of the inkwell generation

[MargaretR]

Inkwells! - what luxury - I remember scratching on slates

[Less]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Inkwells! - what luxury - I remember scratching on slates

Flea powder could have cured many of your woes, (and ours if you'd used DDT).


Or was 'scratching on Slates', a euphemism of the 50's for what flashy did on her school roof?