Hi Old friend.

I guess you put the lady reading form the dictionary with Carol Vorderman and you end up with 'fiveor beans'.

Sorry didn't want ot Lecter you.

Zettel

Zettel,

A useful bit of useless information on the BBC health website:-
'The flatulent follow-up to eating beans can be significantly reduced by blasting them with radioactive rays...' (the beans not the offenders).

I think the natural follow-up to eating beans is to blow a raspberry at the BBC for such off-putting news. I am all for Nature and its Five winds!
Len

Old Friend

I'm with you. Suggests a new genre of movies and books though:

'High Wind in Jamaica'
'The Wind in the Willows

or very true judging from my poor old Dad

'Inherit The Wind'

The BBC's advice I suppose suggests

'Gone with The Wind'

Now see what you've started
We've paid our pennies
And only.......................


Z

Zettel,

I think we have reached rock bottom with this; so I shall not try to wind you up any more.

Len

Agreed. Thanks

Z

I am interested in the use of the semi colon as a break. As although all texts agree the second statement should stand alone as a sentance, you often see a semicolon used as a break after a statement, to precede a list.

For example.

The building site was a riot of activity and materials; bricks, cement mixers, men working, trucks leaving and arriving, cranes raising and lowering materials, and always the shouts of the superviors.

Could you write this as.

The building site was a riot of activity and materials. Bricks, cement mixers, men working, trucks leaving and arriving, cranes raising and lowering materials, and always the shouts of the superviors.

The first sentance feels more correct, but I do not know why.

Ideas?
Cheers
Ian