gdgqler wrote, on 25/Jan/11 16:58 | Jan25:
On 25 Jan 2011, at 16:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
...
I said "That must have cost you an arm and a leg" - innocently I
assure you.
He had physical problems and very little use of his arms and hands.
Oh dear! I used to have an expression for my unwillingness to carry out
a requested task, or whatever. I used to reply "I'd rather stick my arm
in a mincer!".
I used it for many years, possibly irritating many people as I did so.
One day a new girl started at work in my office. I was just about to use
the expression, in her presence, when I noticed that she had an
artificial arm! I stopped using that expression there and then!
:-)
When my wife asks me to do something uncongenial I pretend i don't hear and
just carry on programming, probably in Assembler. This may be equally
irritating.
Many years ago my mother ground up one of my fingers in a wringer. This makes
it slightly more difficult than it should to play the flute. It has no
noticeable effect on programming though.
Ouch. Was that a punishment (8-)#
Even loss of fingers though had no noticeable effect on Django R's
guitar playing.
Remember the Eric Morecambe sketch? He was in a hospital bed, with both
hands in bandages. He asked the surgeon "Will I ever be able to play
the piano again". "I am afraid not" "Well that's OK then - I couldn't
play before".
Tony
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