Pyrrhic Victory

[airboatr]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... speeddesk/

[Airspeed]

Hi Joe,
Sorry, too hot to work in the garden, and I've been at a Community Fair today.
So.......:
pyrrhic
noun

A metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables.

The thinking man might wonder whether they got their antlers locked as reported, or their feet.
Not me, I don't think like that. Their feet wouldn't have been metric, but some natural fibre, and if they were too short, they wouldn't have reached the ground. Finally, they would have had Canadian accents. But they were a bit syllable to get stuck in the ice, weren't they?

btw, the spell checker is rather uneducated, it doesn't recognise pyrrhic.

[Vancouver]

Hi Joe,
Sorry, too hot to work in the garden,

Swine, I'm freezing here, extra thick thermal socks on the old tooties. ..... and it's pissin' down to boot.

[Nigel H-J]

What a way to go! If they could speak can just imagine what their last words could have been..........."Here's another fine mess you got me into"!!

Nigel.