Re: Big Pins

Bill Kinkaid wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:04:09 -0000, "John Dean"
> <john-dean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Bob Ward wrote:
>>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:35:54 GMT, "Anny Middon"
>>> <AnnyMiddon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "John Dean" <john-dean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> news:62tg8kF24mr0kU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>
>>>>> The Markov case is well known here. As is the Litvinenko case. As
>>>>> is the penchant the KGB have for killing people in England in
>>>>> exotic ways. We're getting pretty damn tired of it, I can tell
>>>>> you.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, but without it would you have been able to give the world James
>>>> Bond, and John Steed and Emma Peel, and others who escape me right
>>>> now?
>>>>
>>>> Put a dead British bureaucrat on one side of the scale.  How many
>>>> hours of fun, mindless spy entertainment do you have to put on the
>>>> other side before the scale is balanced?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> He didn't have an issue with the Russkies offing British
>>> bureaucrats - it was those lost tourist rubles that was the rub.
>>
>> Thass right. We got plenty Brit bureaucrats. Hell, I used to be one.
>> The Ivans are welcome.
>
> Especially Ivan Morrison.
> What about the Borises, like the MP who's running to be mayor of
> London?

That Boris (Johnson) is running just to stand still. Phony as a three
dollar 
bill. And like most people regarded by the world as quintessentially 
British, Boris is a bit of a foreign hybrid (the family name originally 
being Kemal in their Turkish days) and has recently renounced his American

citizen****p (because he didn't like the way he was treated at US 
immigration). He's got as much chance of becoming Mayor as I have of
running 
Chelsea's Presidential campaign in 2028.
-- 
John Dean
Oxford