Norman Wells wrote:
>
> "TripleS" <david.knowles@picturesk.net> wrote in message
> news:fs5mcb$8m0$1@news.picturesk.net...
>> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>>> "TripleS" <david.knowles@picturesk.net> wrote
>>>
>>> > That's a pretty small sample size, Vince. What do all the others
>>> say?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Spasiba, eta ochen harosho"
>>>
>>
>> Oh well, if that's how they feel about it! You just can't make any
>> sense of folk like that......or at least I can't! :-(
>>
>> Perhaps Mr Firth, being something of a linguist, can tell me what it
>> means.
>>
>> I seem to recall that ETA is some kind of terrorist group, or at least
>> dissident, sometimes referred to as Basque Separatists....or something.
>>
>> ...and then again isn't a basque something that women used to wear
>> that compressed a load of flab into a tiny waisted figure?
>
> No, that was the Basque Lift and Separatists.
>
> Different lot entirely.

Well I expect they were a Play(tex)ful bunch anyhow. :-)

Best wishes all,
Dave.