Not,... But,....

[Daniel]

“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, everyone of your forbears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from it's life quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly- in you.”

(Bill Bryson)

[Pabmusic]

“Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, everyone of your forbears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from it's life quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly- in you.”

(Bill Bryson)

[Beef Oven!]

Not, The Beatles - But, The Rolling Stones

[P. G. Tipps]

Not, The Beatles - But, The Rolling Stones

Not Michael, But Michaela

[P. G. Tipps]

Not The Honourable & Un-Manicured Mr Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, But The Right Honourable & Truly Gorgeous Ms Priti Patel.

[Pabmusic]

Not but, but not.

[P. G. Tipps]

Not but, but not.

[MrGongGong]

Not but, but not.

Not R.D.Laing

[Beef Oven!]

Not R.D.Laing

But what, MrGG? If we don't follow the rules, chaos ensues. And no one wants that.

[Pulcinella]

Not cloudy, but sunny, at long last!

[eighthobstruction]

....not playing , but observing....

[eighthobstruction]

....not Googled, but knew it already....

[eighthobstruction]

....not in the swing of things, but swung some time ago.....

[P. G. Tipps]

Not E. Balls, But A. Bell's ...

[vinteuil]

Not ker, b-b-b-b-b-b-but