Phill wrote:

Ps: what are you on about ken?

Doesn't matter, does it? People who put up messages like that don't need
actually to know anything to appear witty, informed, sophisticated. It's an
example of the 'wink wink, nudge nudge' school in the best Python tradition.
It's tricky in actual conversation, because if questioned the self-styled wit
may not be able to escape, and it most often turns out that the person can't
really contribute anything. But on a newsgroup one can be anonymous and back
away at any time.

And no-one ever needs to know...