[blml] "not have the force of law"

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Probst" <john at asimere.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] "not have the force of law"


>
> We expressed our concern; you and me, that the new Laws would be in
> Grattanese. I find the substantial revision to be clearer than the
> previous Laws, and closer to my perception of "How we play bridge" than
> before.  I somewhat impertinently had the temerity to tell grattan that I
> believed he should be proud of his swansong. (What the hell, i'm always in
> trouble, but I genuinely meant it).  john
>
> *swansong - based on the myth that a swan only sings when it is dying; and
> thusly one's final great work. (Vide Mozart's requiem for example)

+=+ A very reasonable concern for any who had no experience of
the range of expression I had used in commercial life - explaining
gambling rules to LOLs who gamble and gambling practices to Royal
Commissions - and who had no prescient awareness of the strong
support Bill Schoder, in particular, and John Wignall would provide in
this regard.  Hints of the intellectual did creep in here and there -
"incorporates the information contained", for example, words I supplied
for a basic idea put forward by Al Levy in the WBFLC meeting and
given shape by Chip Martel . The concept will be further defined by
case law as we go along.
       As for swansongs - all in due time.....
                                         ~ Grattan ~     +=+