HW: Greasy Tracks, Meat, Trains and Tibet

Chris Warburton desdinova at EARTHLING.NET
Sat Oct 30 14:38:28 EDT 1999


At 22:54 28.10.1999 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Then, we saw the British police steaming in on demonstrators waving Tibetan
>flags in London, which they subsequently confiscated, and were later given a
>gold star award from Home secretary Jack Straw.
>Yes Jacko, and we all remember what your son smokes.

That's to make up for him being the only student of his era that didn't....


>
>And if that wasn't enough, we in Britain are more than likely to pay even
>more money for a passport cos of a f**k up by the passport office during the
>Summer.
>Did we ask for the requirement of a passport in the first place?

I understand the principle of the passport (even if I don't really agree
with it)...I don't understand why we have to pay for them...sur le
continong (as we former ex-pats say) they just travel on their ID cards
(though one colleague of mine forgot that he couldn't do that to goto the
States..hee-hee...I understand the airport staff were MOST amused)

>
>Well, that feels much better.
>
>All the best
>Age

Nothing like a good purge, is there?

ChrisW
ObCD: Kip Hanrahan - Exotica

"a cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin" -
Bierce



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