Why would the barman say that? As far as he knows, three people are in his pub, that's all. Since none has spoken, he doesn't know they are in fact a Pakistani, a Blonde and an Irishman, nor would he necessarily classify them as such. All three could be Irish, all three could be British, or indeed any other nationality. Just because two men and a woman walk into a pub it doesn't necessarily mean it's the start of a joke, does it?
"John Redman" wrote in message news:ds568m$ivm$ snipped-for-privacy@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
Actually you'll find Tumbleweed didnt specify the sex of the 'blonde'.
In message , john boyle writes
Suppose someone branded the pig/cow with an 'I promise to pay the bearer' would it then become a document?
In message , " snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net" writes
Once the pig/cow is dead presumably it will become a form of vellum - like old deeds. So, does an animal have to be dead before it can be a document?
A dead or live animal is no more a document than is a piece of paper or parchment or a floppy disk. What makes them documents is the information recorded on them.
It was a pig in the real story. It was a cow in the true story.
In message , Troy Steadman writes
And in the reel story?
Except in the case of pigs. The other thread seems to have come to a grinding halt. Do I take it that you and Tim now accept that sawing a plateful of frozen wee tatties in half doesn't give you more tatties?
In message , " snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net" writes
No.
In message , Troy Steadman writes
OK, I can accept that.
Yes. So long as the promise is well-documented and duly witnessed, the medium is irrelevant. Unlike in the case of a parchment or paper document, though, there is a risk that once the pig gets turned into ham and bacon, and its skin chopped up for purse leather, the document is lost. A similar risk of document disappearance obtains if the pig should grow wings.
Did I ever suggest it would? It does, however, give you two platefuls of tatties.
In message , Ronald Raygun writes
Keep it away from the redbull.
In message , Ronald Raygun writes
Chambers "n. a paper esp. of an official character, affording information, proof or evidence of anything." I have not snipped anything, that is the complete definition of the noun 'document'.
That's not very comprehensive. Try a bigger dictionary.
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