"Home Strip" paint stripper

[Mary Fisher]

:-)

Four, and counting!

Mary

[Derek ^]

It's a pudding soaked in liqueur we used to have at school dinners.

We had to bring in the D.O.M. liqueur ourselves during school trips, from Fécamp, of course, each year it was the responsibility of the the

3rd form. to squirrel it away whilst on school trips to the Benedictine Abbey in the land of my forebears, Normandy.

Otherwise it would have just been plain old Joly Poly :-(

Aka Jolly Poorly :-((

Or, in the worst case, "Dead Baby".

DG

[Mary Fisher]

If you think that applies to me it must apply to everyone else who asks questions without looking at Google first.

We think that there will be personal expertise on a ng. Isn't that what a group is about?

We don't ALL know everything ...

Mary

[Guy King]

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Exactly. That's what Google is for.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well, this one is about DIY and who or what Dom Jolly is, isn't. Unless a brand of paint stripper, obviously.

That's a bit lax of you. Please try harder.

[Mary Fisher]

Isn't it better to ask friends first? If not, why have a ng?

[Bob Eager]

No. It was a specific observation.

[Guy King]

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I'd always look for myself first to avoid using up other people's goodwill gratuitously.

[Stuart Noble]

Because there are topics (like combi boilers) that haven't been addressed before

[Owain]

But does Google know everything?

Owain

[Mary Fisher]

True goodwill has no limit - and most people like to help.

[Guy King]

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Of course not, that's where the newsgroup comes in.

[Guy King]

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Up to a point, Lord Copper.

[Bob Eager]

My point - which has been missed or ignored - is that I suspect that Mary often *knows* the answer, but would rather try to appear 'above' such things by pretending she doesn't know. Not 'above' Googling, but 'above' the subject matter. After all, she tries to be 'superior' the rest of the time....!

[Mary Fisher]

Who's Lord Copper?

I'm going to bed in a minute so don't feel affronted if you think I haven't read an answer :-)

M

[Mary Fisher]

So the ng is a secondary source?

I prefer it the other way round.

Mary

[Jason]

It's, umm, a *trestle* table. Sorry.

To make it easy, and to save me loads of typing:

[Jason]

Nope.

Google only knows one thing: it know who *really* knows everything.

[Guy King]

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I left that as an exercise for the reader. If you go beachcombing for the whole phrase it'll make sense.