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- From: ah@dunaad.co.uk (Alan Hunter)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Help with a title
- Message-ID: <BzLLzD.HL5@dunaad.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 07:26:00 GMT
- References: <NICHAEL.92Dec10160637@kariba.bbn.com> <Bz4z8w.8E@dunaad.co.uk> <lynx.03ne@surrey.amigans.gen.nz>
- Organization: Johnson Hunter Limited
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- In article <lynx.03ne@surrey.amigans.gen.nz> lynx@surrey.amigans.gen.nz
- (Lynsey Gedye) writes:
-
- ah>It was revealed by Peter Cook last night on Britain's premier news
- ah>analysis programme (Have I got news for you- BBC2 2200) that the so
- ah>called separation is in fact a tax dodge. (You will recall that the
- ah>royals will start paying tax next year).
-
- lg> Cool, Alan, it all seems reasonable. What does concern me is how
- lg> come on the news on the teeve here each broadcast ends with a credit to
- lg> a certain *Malcolm MacLaren* - the man who got "God Save the Queen" to
- lg> number one during the silver anniversary.
-
- That merely confirms NZ's standing as the last true hope of the british
- empire. It seems pretty clear to me that only after the entire House of
- Windsor has left these once great shores and hung itself upside down (or
- however it is that you guys stay attached) somewhere in your beautiful
- land, will the empire rise again to greatness. The prescence of an advance
- party, including a great showman like Malcolm MacLaren, shows that they're
- thinking the same way.
-
- lg> Do you think that the extra publicity could help sell the royals books
-
- Well I hear that the markets pretty saturated in North America,
- Australasia and Europe. There's been some sales resistance among the
- boers in South Africa, but there doesn't seem much to be done about that.
- However the Queen has taken positive action re the disappointing sales in
- the balkans and ordered another 20 minute cease fire in order to get more
- stocks into the city centre book shops. The big story on royal book sales
- is, of course, the immense assistance forthcoming from GB (no coincidence
- there), in the last days of his reign; sending all those US boys out to
- restock the country book shops in Somalia. We're hoping that they'll be
- moving on to Ethiopia around the beginning of January (I believe that the
- Orthodox Church runs 14 days behind Rome).
-
- lg> and is there a chance of reclaiming my family estate in Cornwall?
-
- Try writing Charlie for a house swap deal.
-
- > And is BBC2 2200 something like Transylvania 6-5000?
-
- No its a tv channel and a time. Fortunately IBM have recently announced
- SOM to help us deal with these weird compound objects.
-
- Rgds
- Alan
-
- ObBook. Wouldn't it be nice if someone would write a "Decline and Fall of
- the British Empire" with a little bit of grandeur, decadence and whatnot.
- The material just doesn't seem to be there though. Plenty of sleaze but
- not much real decadence.
-
- --
- Alan Hunter
- Johnson Hunter Ltd
- Isle of Islay, Scotland
- A.Hunter@dunaad.co.uk fax: +44-496-2336 voice: +44-496-2286
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