"Jon Fairbairn" wrote in message
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Cursitor Doom writes:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:41:24 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

Sit him in cold water for ten minutes and they would not have all that
trouble.

The Germans always opt for the most painful form of remedy - everyone
knows that, surely.

Cold probably wouldn't work very well if at all: once the blood
is in there, the rings stop it getting out.


Indeed.

Which does then raise the question as to how he managed to get nos
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 on, in the first place.

Or put the other way, why whatever it is that allowed him to successively
fit nos 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 no longer seems to be working
in reverse.


michael adams

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