Jon Mac's commentary on Paul Richardson makes one want to meet both--No?
Passports Vetted??
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From: jonmac <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
To: TR3197@AOL.COM <TR3197@AOL.COM>
Cc: Friends of Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: The 'wind -up'
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>>Good to see you surface...Paul!
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>Joe, it's not so much a question of surfacing per se. The truth of the
>matter is that he had has just finished planting fifty acres of new
potatoes
>by hand and hadn't got anything more useful to say!
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>>Why dont you come and spend the summer with us retirees? You could reprise
>>the role of Team Manager at Mid-Ohio and other venues.
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>FOTer's - it's far better he stays away. In CB parlance, once those MG guys
>get an eyeball on him, it'll be like the Battle of New Orleans all over
>again. You won't see them for dust and that would spoil everyone's fun.
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>Fact of the matter is that HM Queen has recently issued a Royal Decree in
>Letters Patent such that us more senior subjects now have to have our
>passports vetted before leaving these shores to inspect the world as a
>whole. I hate to have to say this but Richardson has had his passport
>withdrawn. Liz thought that the words stamped on the first page
"UNDESIRABLE
>BRITISH SUBJECT - ADMISSION DISCOURAGED" might be to Her Disadvantage.
>Reliable feedback from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is that a more
>descriptive personal outline along the lines of unsuitable, unstable,
>unshaven, unpredictable, unwashed, unpleasant and a few other un-adjectives
>was more appropriate. Normally, these words would have appeared in a former
>British passport but since we now have EUROPEAN COMMUNITY IDENTITY
DOCUMENTS
>looking more like a lunch wrapper for an out of work goatherd, there just
>wasn't enough room on the relevant page.
>Let's just say it's better for the world as a whole if he's kept here.
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>John Mac
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