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- From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Burn baby burn!
- Message-ID: <28514@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:44:18 GMT
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- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- Well, even the murricans have probably had it plastered all over MTV
- that Liz Regina's (aka The Queen) house burned down.
-
- Bad news huh?
-
- The good news (if you're not a philistine like me (what did the
- Phillistines do to get this rep anyway?)) is that human chains, icluding
- members of the Royal Family, helped rescue a few piccies.
-
- So anyway, large chunks of Windsor Castle have been oxidised and that
- means that the recently averted trade war between us and the yooess has
- been put on the back burner. If you'll pardon the pun :-)
-
- So what, you may ask, is the problem? After all, Liz is well know to
- have not a few houses dotted around the place. She even has one in
- Edinburgh.
-
- Now, it's not for me to tell the investigators their business, and of
- course I'd best avoid libel, but some other interesting facts have come
- to light on the evening news:
-
- The rooms that were burned out were mostly empty.
-
- The castle had its own fire brigade which was drastically reduced recently.
-
- There was no effective sprinkler system.
-
- "Aha!" The budding Perry Mason's will think, "An insurance job!".
-
- Now it is true that there have been threats to make the Queen pay tax
- like the rest of us, and if it weren't for her being the richest person
- in the world and all, she might well be looking for quick cashflow.
-
- However, the killer as far as this theory goes is:
-
- It wasn't insured.
-
- Now the more astute amongst the audience (which means everyone except
- Dalhousie will have, with some knowledge of my pet obsessions) already
- have figured out the peeve. Still, for the benefit of the slowest, we'll go
- through this slowly and in stages. So:
-
- "Gee, too bad Liz-babe. Dumb move not to insure the castle huh? I guess
- you lose. Still, I guess you can afford a few tens of millions huh?"
-
- Like yeah, right. true etc.
-
- But guess who is actually picking up the tab?
-
- Yep, you guessed it.
-
- The Taxpayer.
-
- Which is to say, me, Tony, et al.
-
- Just great.
-
- Like Liz-babe would pick up my tab if I forgot the insurance.
-
- So what it amounts to is the taxpayer is going to pay for the castle of
- the richest person in the world who not only doesn't pay any bloody
- taxes but is too genetically inbred to have the sense to insure the
- place.
-
- Sheesh. I demand a Republic.
-
- FoFP
- --
-
- I wonder how long it will be before the Church of England will accept
- AI's as Priests...
-