Mother of all abominations

One dreadful consequence of writing this blog has been a realisation that ideas whose sublimity none has dared impute in the bar down the alley, Sally, are regularly rubbished by those too distant to receive the hair-mussing they so richly deserve. Here, for example, barrett writes

Elsewhere on a BBS an American high school student looking for the origins of shepherd’s pie was directed to the official version. “But it’s gibberish!” he cried, and went on to become a successful engineer.

Trevor @ 5 August 2005 5:39 PM

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