Re: Jack Hackett's secret life?

I really wish now I hadn't bothered.

No you don't.

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.

lmao.... I sense a squirming motion.

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

(1) I don't know and have never met Jack.

Clearly

(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.

But you were interested enough to go check the picture and post it up on a
public newsgroup. I'd say that makes you more than slightly interested.
Squirm on.

(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".

I shudder to think ......

(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.

Odd you should have memorised just Jack's.

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.

That's OK Harry. We're a bit more polite here. We'll just keep it to
ourselves. ;-)


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