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On 09/09/2015 20:14, Laura Creighton wrote:
> In a message of Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:00:22 +1000, Chris Angelico writes:
>> To get started, you need some other sort of kick.
>
> Having Brian Kernighan write a really nice book about you, helps a lot.
>
> Laura
>

Who?  Did he play left wing or right wing for City?  Or was it United?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence