[SOC] Off topic observations and a question

[Derek Wills]

> I work for a company here in the US and our parent companies are based 
> in Switzerland.  The Swiss guys who came over to the US were totally 
> bugged out by the term "back and forth".  They couldn't understand how 
> you could go back without going forward (forth) first.

      My xyl's mother/mum/mom, an Aussie, once told me that she was
      tired out from walking backwards and forwards all day, and I
      suggested that she restrict her walking to the forwards version.

Derek aa5bt