> On 14 Aug 15, at 15:23, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14 August 2015 at 21:20, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 15 Aug 2015, at 12:58 am, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> +1 >>> "wet the candidate"? Is that what you do in Denmark? how do you do it? >> ;-) >> >> It’s an old viking ritual, handed down through the generations. Best left >> to the masters I think - my laptop’s most recent interaction with liquid >> was a rather expensive > > Screen cleaner is alcohol !! > > but agreed alcohol works best inside. The expression "wetting a candidate" > is actually an old US expression, I think it comes throwing small babies in > the river, and those that survived got a name (or something like that).
:-) puts a new spin on sink or swim, with those who sink go *way, way* down! > > rgds > jan I. > > >> one... >> >> — >> Dr Peter M. Kelly >> [email protected] >> >> PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> >> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) >> >>
