Re: Archiving old magazines on website

["Tony A." <you.dont@need.to.know>]

"John Burns" <joobs@grizo.free-onlineNOJUNK.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In the context in which I used the phrase (metaphorically also) I meant
that his
> argument would be hung (as in "hung out to dry" (exposed)) by the very
device
> which he attempts to use to blow up my argument. His reply that I should
do my
> own research only shows how weak his argument was. I cannot prove a
negative,
> but then neither can he (hence his feeble reply); it is for him to show
proof.
>
I didn't intend to detract from your argument there, quite agree.

> Of course I accept that my use of the phrase was open to
mis-interpretation
> since most see it as a physical (hung (hanging) and petard (some sort of
crane))
> statement than as metaphor, mea Culpa. But then when it leads to a
discussion on
> Shakespeare can it be so bad  ;)
>
I've always got time for the Bard ;-).

Tony