Re: Jack Hackett's secret life?

"JackH" <jackhackettuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:456p0aF58b5bU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Over to you, Harry...

--
JackH


<Michael Winner mode = ON>

Calm down, dear, it's only a link!

<Michael Winner mode = OFF>

I really wish now I hadn't bothered. Somebody in another newsgroup
posted a link to a site called Oldbailey.org. On an impulse I clicked
on the link and found a page with pictures of middle-aged leather-clad
bikers attending some sort of meet. One of the pictures was captioned
with something like "Jack Hackett tucks into a burger". So I thought
I'd post the link as being mildly amusing. (When I was at school a
friend and I were punished for pasting a picture on the main
noticeboard of a convicted armed robber who had the same name as our
headmaster. Even after the passing of many years, I still can't
resist the childish impulse to do these things!) Little did I suspect
that this innocent act would give birth to such a flurry of silly
speculation as to my motives.

If I may proceed, m'lud, to outline the case for the defence?

(1) I don't know and have never met Jack.
(2) I am not actually interested in knowing what he looks like
although if I ever decide that I do want to meet him it might be a
useful thing to know. I have no doubt that his appearance will be
well within acceptable norms and probably correspond to my mental
picture of him as a model of logic and erudition.
(3) I do have a lot of time on my hands, it is true, but I manage to
fill it quite well without "trawling the net for pictures of Jack".
(4) Although it is true that Jack posts as "JackH", a quick glimpse of
the origin of his posts, which are plain to see at the top of each
message, shows jackhackettuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx In other words, m'lud, I am
only relying on publicly visible information and have not gone to
immense lengths and employed devious measures to reveal his secret
identity.

Finally, if the poster who considers that I have "inadvertently
blurted out a little too much information" would care to go public
with whatever it is that he has, it might be quite interesting. I'm
quite looking forward to finding out about my "indiscretion" and the
more amusing it is the better I'll enjoy it. Apart from the
unfortunate episode with the goat, in respect of which I must stress
again that no charges were ever brought, my life is an open book.

Cheers.
--
Harry Keane


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