On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:39:16 +0100, "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Any Tom, Dick and Harry can copy and build a circuit out of a book.

Hi Reggie,

You prove you can write in English, but equally proven is that this
post is as obscure as reading Beowulf. However, it is equally notable
that most English speakers have some of the poorest grammar:
These days, there are mostly Tom's, Dick's and Harry's!
where possessive case substitutes for plurals.

Is this the standard troll, or whining? Do you somehow feel
disappointed that Engineers don't create art? Has your esteem for
British luminaries suddenly dimmed by their lack of imagination?

I for one cannot imagine Bill Thomson sitting on a Parisian sidewalk
doing chalk copies of renaissance art - unless he was anticipating
your holiday so as to wing that chalk off your noggin.

Or perhaps you pine for the lost opportunity of Auguste Rodin
sculpting Pascal code out of marble. Whoops! A frog there. Perhaps
a Tom Gainsborough sloshing the paint to rummage up an astable
multivibrator.

Oh for the days when they were mostly Toms, Bills, and Augustes....
and Marcels - "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" Now there's a French
sleeping pill no engineer would copy.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC