Re: Turn Your Radio On ...

On 2/3/25 7:36 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-02-03, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 21:56:05 +0100, D wrote:
 

Swede? Is that what you call them? That's funny, never heard before!

 https://mr-fothergills.co.uk/blogs/all/fascinating-facts-figures-swedes-
turnip
 To further confuse the issue... Around here turnips are sometimes called
swedes and Swedish turnips are called rutabaga.
 Rutabagas are also handy for figuring out if it's a jig or a reel.  If you
can say ru-ta-ba-ga ru-ta-ba-ga it's a reel.

 One exception, of course, is the Mothers of Invention's _Call Any Vegetable_.

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 "... the vegetable may respond to you"  :-)
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The well of knowledge in comp.os.linux.misc is deep, eternal, and the
range of subjects very wide!

 And mindbogglingly eclectic.

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 Indeed.
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 "Tekkies" may specialize in something, but the state
 of mind spawns endless curiosity all through life and
 thus fair expertise across a broad field of subjects.
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 The prepared mind ......
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