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:
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.

Pah! My Concise Oxfrod says that's the US form only, but does allow
that the US form is usually used for `computer program'. I've never had
time for the sloppiness of Collins dictionaries.

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.

By the time I recall the thing, they were up to a Crackerjack pencil
*and* pen.

[snip]

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.

Ah, but did it have a political slogan on it? Do tell me `yes' - but
only visible under far UV of the sort that can't get through the
atmosphere.

Rowland.
(who didn't make a mistake accidentally up there)


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