Helen, she of the purse that bought a thousand slips, suggested: hawsers, with those conical devises (perhaps Cap't Kiki knows the name of them?) meant to keep ship board rats on the ship and land lubber rats on land

Note that I've never, ever sung with Elton John. Or anything elsed with EJ.

The second thing is that yes, I do know what they're called but for the life of me I can't remember at the moment. It'll come to me when I'm trying to work out something trivial like the number of megawatt-hours a particular meter at a point of connection on the national grid can actually record in one half-hour period.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...