Categories: just-life
Date: 10 January 2007 10:53:09
I am a big fan of the BBC and spend a lot of time catching up on the day's events on their news pages. In their magazine section they have a daily "Quote of the Day" that's updated about 9 each morning. Todays was a classic....
"Everyone would want to ride on it and no work would get done" - a Stannah Stairlift boss explains why they don't have one in the office
Of course, this doesn't beat, for shear understatment, the one from Freddie Flintoff after England lost the Ashes Tour 5-0;
"It didn't go quite as we would have liked"
hehehehe (yes, I'm laughing through the pain of losing)
N.B. (as it should be written, apparently) is from the Latin (and not french as I was going to claim) for nota bene, meaning "note well!" It is afirm command, reminding people not to forget something.
P.S. (again, capitalised) is again Latin, this time for post scriptum, meaning "after what has been written". Forinstance, at the end of a letter, after you'd signed off.
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