Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:21 PM 11/14/02 -0700, Tim Atherton wrote: >and... what was the correct answer? > The capsule version of the tale is that the British "Religious Right" of the first decade of the last century backed the Liberal Party, who had promised, as one plank in their platform, to reduce the hours in which British pubs could be open. The Whigs were unable to force this through -- after all, a number of their OWN members, including Winston Churchill, Lord Haldane, and Earl Grey were firmly opposed. But, when the British unwisely became enmired in the First World Imbroglio, the Liberal gummit eventually put through a bill establishing rather bizarre hours, which the British have had to live with ever since. Carl Kassel unwisely linked these bizarre hours to the Second World War, as if Winston Churchill would have any part of such a restriction on the rights of man to bear alcohol! I was only one of the three first to catch the error. I also recently found out Andie Rooney mentioned my name in his latest book as the result of some correspondence we had a decade back. A local judge told me of this in the middle of a case I was litigating. As I won the case, I presume the judge approves of Andie Rooney or that he detests him, and the reference is in the negative. Maybe these two events are the 15 minutes of fame my fellow Pittsburgher, Andy Warhol, promised us all. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html