On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:36:49 +0000
Tim Streater wrote:

In article op.v75if6fqytk5n5@i7-940, "Lieutenant Scott"
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:55:26 -0000, wrote:

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:58:29 -0000, "Lieutenant Scott"
wrote:

A "mother in law" can be made plural to "mother in law"s. Just
add the s to the end of the entire unit.

That would be "mothers-in-law".

Who gives a ****? It's obvious what it means.

It means that the writer is an ignorant **** whose views, ideas,
comments, may be safely ignored.


Indeed. Quote pulled from a different NG:
"
................... but I have known
another RJ11 plug or even a RJ11 socket to be fitted, but the
proscribed standard is a RJ45 data socket.

Sometimes spelling matters.

Proscribed (prohibited) or did you perhaps mean prescribed (set down
authoritatively)? "

An error of one letter completely reverses the meaning of the sentence.
--
Davey.