Re: Mark Thomas: My Life in Serious Organised Crime was Re: I have been busy.

Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today, I wrote a letter, the latest in a series. I then delivered it
to:

snip

[1] And if you want to send a letter to him that claims to come from me
just to mess things up for me, fire away - the deception will be spotted
instantly.

Yep, there's only one Rowland :))

You'd be amazed at the things some people do. I met some astonishingly
subtle and vindictive behaviour from various people when I was at high
school; and as that sort of person gets older, it turns out that they
just get cleverer and more underhand at their vindictive nastiness - and
I've seen that, too.

And anyway, I'm right, aren't I? The founts I use for letters aren't
free and don't come with Windoze, and in any case, I use a unique layout
applied by LaTeX (what else?). The effect is distinctive. Even if
someone used a WP with the right founts and copied the layout, it'd look
wrong without an awful lot of hand tweaking. The idea was so that I
could spot my own letters very quickly, but it did occur to me that it
also does another job.

Rowland.

Yers, well, I wasn't going to give /clues/ <G>

P.S. Actually, there are quite a few Rowlands, but only one Rowland
J.M. McDonnell.

But you're the /real/ one.

Only in this universe.

Who me, being stupidly picky? Why not? It's Friday
and I didn't get to watch Crackerjack, so of course I'm sulking.

No-one can watch that program any more.

<cough> I know that spelling matters are best ignored on Usenet, but
really - *you* know better than that, don't you?

Anyway, various places on the Web say it started in 1955, but the Beeb
says '57, and it stopped in 1984. I was 17 when Winston Smith started
his diary, so I had other things on my mind at the time (okay, beer,
girls, motorcycles, and bloody bloody /bloody/ integration.).

Which could explain a few things,
I suppose.

Probably has something to do with the rise of gun crime and crack
dealing. Give the kids more cabbages, that's the trick.

P.P.S.

What's the subject line on about? The funniest radio programme I've
heard in years, that's what:

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/markthomas_crime


<http://www.markthomasinfo.com/>

I did sort of know that ;))

Ah, but others will have missed it. Listen peeps: if you need a giggle,
click that BBC link. *Screamingly* funny, I promise - how funny? Okay,
all of it is entirely true: but how about (for example) Mark Thomas
getting a police escort to protect him from the police, so that he could
conduct his legal demonstration in Parliament Square while the cops were
breaking up an illegal demo in the same place without Mark getting
arrested himself?

I staged an impromptu illegal mass
demonstration of one in Parliament Square yesterday; I was protesting at
having to wait for lots of cars before I could cross the road, but I was
so quiet and well-behaved that I think I got away with it.

<chuckle>

Rowland.


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