Quote Originally Posted by jsrnephdoc View Post
(apologies in advance if this turns out to be a duplicate)

Jock, I hope you'll accept what follows as light-hearted in intent, rather than in any way accusatory. My previous activity here has concentrated on bemoaning the disappearance of the necktie from the American scene while expressing fondness for the device in British dress. When a necktie IS worn in the Colonies, it's often done so either carelessly: just witness the crimson neckwear of our own president, which typically extends halfway to his own knees. But, as to your post:

  1. Although my own post-high-school educational institutions (Trinity College, CT and Yale University) are mere infants compared to those in Edinburgh and Glasgow, they seem to have fallen victim quickly to the effervescence of fashion in the US. When I was a student, sequentially at each, 5 decades ago, athletic mascot neckties were readily available at the bookstores of each, but NEITHER bothers to try to sell them today.
  2. I suspect you may have fallen victim to an "attack of the AI merchants" or spell checkers in your own post in your suggestion that we "bare in mind" (which carries some rather gruesome anatomic consequences).


Before you rebuke me, I'll confess to a much worse battle with my own keyboard just a day ago. A very close friend has just learned and informed me he has a dangerous but hopefully treatable/curable malignancy. I have a second close friend who is a world-renowned oncologist. I appealed to friend #2 for some advice for friend #1 yesterday. He promptly replied that his training had NOT qualified him to answer my query, in which I had stated that friend #1 was having his "wide excision" surgery within the week. However, a slip of the finger had produced a question that asked about "wife excision" surgery.
Oh don’t worry, basically I can’t spell! Never could.