BG> Not so desperate that I need to respond to your caustic wit.

RS> Odd. You did.

RS> Corse an uncharitable person might think that even you have realised
RS> that you were halfway thru to china on that particular one and so it
RS> might well be handy to go for the parachute and bail out while you could.

KR> if you are in the process of digging a hole halfway
KR> to china, what earthly use would a parachute be?

I rather enjoy deliberately using mixed metaphors, coz
it give the boring language police instant brain fade |-)

I also play silly buggers with apostrophes for the same reason.
@EOT:

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