[Leica] Women who eat too much......

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

"Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote
>>>>>>>
LET'S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT WITH THESE REPEAT COMMENTS AND WHO SAID WHAT!

FIRST OF ALL, "I TED GRANT" DID NOT MAKE THIS COMMENT! So let's get it
straight!

>> "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote in response to
>>  If I was her father I'd be beating her up and down mountains with
>> a stick - and have a combination lock on the fridge....<<<<<<

It is my understanding after seeing the above a number of times that Douglas
wrote this remark.
<<<<<<<

Ego te absolvo, Ted.
You most certainly did not write the remark about beating her up and down 
mountains with a stick. I'm rather afraid that I did.

I, of course, apologise if this caused any offence or misunderstanding. It 
was meant to be jocose, but, unfortunately, doctors differ and patients die, 
so jocose remarks expire too. In Ireland, we pride ourselves on being able 
to withstand jocose banter, it tends to be a national characteristic, but 
conditions are different elsewhere, and sensitivities vary profoundly. A 
jocose remark which would flourish in Ireland dies withered in the barren 
soil of cyberspace and leaves me embarrassed for typing it.

If it's any consolation to the offended, I'm trying to diet & exercise too, 
as the erstwhile Celtic Tiger has left the denizens of a newly portly nation 
both puzzled & dismayed by its recently found food addiction. I'm still 
trying to work out how the winner of many mountain races in the 80s has 
managed to hide his hitherto sylphlike figure in the gourmand gargantua of 
the noughties. In fact I ask that question of the reflection in the mirror 
daily........

Douglas