On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:12:31 +0100, fred wrote:

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Another John writes
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The Medway Handyman wrote:

Homobase work on huge margins to fleece the unwary.

Aside:
I wish you wouldn't call them that: it's very Old Skool, not clever, and
not funny, and above all it's unworthy of TMH that [I thought] I know
and love!

I've been influenced by the scatter cushions, table lamps, cook ware,
furniture etc that they sell in preference to things like sheets of plywood.

Fair comment

You were right the first time, it is neither big nor clever, and
unwelcome.

It was, at least, novel... to begin with (unlike Microshaft or
Micro$oft references seen in other groups where it's a case of
'preaching to the choir', 'Teaching Granny to suck eggs' and is
getting just a little tired now).

The ideal would have been to only use the deliberate 'typo' in the
subject line and nowhere else but I know what it's like when you think
up an appropriate epiphet like this, you tend to get carried away with
it.

I used to do the same with Microsoft and Packard Bell (Packard Bell
End) but I tend to avoid such expressions now since, if persisted in,
it tends to be regarded as not big nor clever.
--
J B Good