I think perhaps I ought to just end my day and sleep for a few hours. The
mind slows down in my case I guess by the end of my long day. Thanks for
the explanation.
E. At 08:17 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote:
Hi E,
Chocks are basically blocks of some kind that are used to hold something that rolls on wheels in place. They used to use them to hold airplanes in place at the terminals. I have usd them while working on jacked up automobiles.
In otherwords, there ain't nothing holding me back now.
Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:13 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: too darned funny! ;-))
What is chocks? At 08:09 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am back to validating again. I got access to MS Word again so I am back off the chocks.
I am validating the book All things Herriot. It is about the life of James Alfred Wight who was the real vet. He sure did a wonderful job of creating all the characters and places and events in his books.
While working through this book I came across a passage that just shook my tree and I fell over cackling. Read it below and I hope you all find this histerical too.
New characters enrich the text. The portrait of Mr. Pickersgill is a classic study in malapropism worthy of any eighteenth-century comedy or of a Dickens character. If a little learning is not always a dangerous thing, it is often a funny thing. Farmer Pickersgill, a good stocksman with a small herd, once attended a two-week course of instruction for agricultural workers at Yorkshire's Leeds University. "This brief glimpse of the academic life had left an indelible impression on his mind. . . . No capped and gowned don ever looked back to his years among the spires of Oxford with more nostalgia than did Mr. Pickersgill to his fortnight at Leeds". Pickersgill's vocabulary has slipped since his long ago "college days." He phones Herriot from the "cossack" in the village to treat a calf for "semolina," meaning salmonella. The animal is bleeding from the "rectrum," and the farmer wants a feces sample sent to the "labrador," although he is convinced that the calf's problem is due to the fact that the animal bled at birth from its "biblical" cord. Pickersgill does not want to be charged an "absorbent" price and he knows from experience that troubles come in "cyclones".
Have fun.
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