'Thanks Furry for your help in coming up with the idea for the Captn Cook cartoon. What did you think?'
Thank you Champas. I enjoyed it, and you took it significantly further than I had envisaged.
Personally, perhaps I would have used a little less text. I tend to the opinion that a point can be so much more powerful if one leaves the occasional ellipsis (...); ie. it is up to the reader to 'fill in the gaps' (missing words / thoughts / conclusions / implications). A bit like the appeal of some music (eg. the Police, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, dub) - often it's the gaps BETWEEN the notes that are the more significant moments. It can also have the bonus effect of making one's readers feel that they are being credited with sufficient intelligence to work one's point out for themselves.
There again, perhaps this is that old Pommie inclination to understatement breaking surface in me once again. Whatever, yes - glad you liked the idea, and a fine effort.
