DR>> Björn's gateway software may muddle the quotes up so please forgive me DR>> replying to myself!
BF> Never!
Sorry, I wasn't criticising your software. Just that one shouldn't really be replying to oneself. In fact my self reply was treated absolutely correctly.
BF> However, I got this from a rather amusing site:
BF> Britain seems to be becoming more Pythonesque by the day. In one of BF> the most iconic scenes from the legendary religious satire, The BF> People's Liberation Front of Judea are presented with what appears to BF> be a rhetorical question by their leader Reg (played by John Cleese):
BF> What have the Romans ever done for us?
BF> Unfortunately for Reg, those listening to the speech respond with BF> the many positive aspects of Roman occupation such as sanitation, BF> medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a BF> freshwater system, public health and peace.
BF> It's almost as though the 1979 comic masterpiece has shades of the BF> debate around withdrawal from the European Union.
All good comedy is based in truth and caricatures the eccentricities and (dare I say it) stupidities of the people it is mocking. Remember "Yes, Minister"? And "Father Ted" (don't know if that was exported)? And even "Goodness, Gracious Me"?
Thank goodness we can laugh at ourselves.
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110) Former sysop writing in retirement from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France
