atw: Re: Mr. Marnell's naive defence of ANYONE (was RE: Mr Ashley's attack...
- From: Stuart Burnfield <slb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Austechwriter <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:28:32 +0800 (WST)
Geoff said:
> But be careful: if you think that someone of the stature of
> Emeritus Professor Pam Peters is merely expressing her "onion"
An elegant phrase and a valuable addition to the language.
I often experience this feeling (*). Now we have a name for it. "Don't worry
about old Mr Burnfield," they will tell the office juniors, "he's just
expressing his onion again."
Stuart
(*) For example, when reading Christine's replies to one of Neil's gracious and
patient Word queries.
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