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

On 2007-03-30, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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

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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?

I know what you mean, and normally I am careful about differentiating; but
my Collins (sic) Westminster Dictionary 'allows' both indiscriminately.

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.

Absolutely. And a pencil if they're really lucky.

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?

Do listen :))

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.

I was even wearing a black hat.

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