An advertisement found in The Canberra Times - personal column under WANTED

A tall well-built woman with good reputation, who can cook frogs legs, who appreciates a good fuc- schia garden, classic music and tal- king without getting too serious. But please only read lines 1,3 and 5.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

Answers

Well Duncan, your "formatting" has really stuffed up that one!

For the record; line 2 begins with reputation, line 3 begins with legs, line 4 with schia, line 5 with king

;-) + :-(

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

A tall well-built woman with good reputation,
who can cook frogs legs,
who appreciates a good fuc-
schia garden, classic music and tal-
king without getting too serious.
But please only read lines 1,3 and 5.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

Thank you Softie, BTW, have you deliberately dropped the "Southerner" part of your nom de plume (now that you're an honorary Geordie!), or is it just due to this new posting format? :-)

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000