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- Path: sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!jcarroll
- From: jcarroll@gath.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Subject: Re: short shameful confession
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.171555.20210@walter.cray.com>
- Originator: jcarroll@gath
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- Sender: jcarroll@gath (Jeff Carroll)
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <9301230345.AA14390@prg.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:15:54 CST
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- In article <9301230345.AA14390@prg.ox.ac.uk>, gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Hertz van Rentl) writes:
- > When a newscaster says `The Prime Minister',
- > I still get a (mercifully brief) vision of
- > That Bloody Woman before I remember...
- > ___
- > It's the capital `T' in `The' that does it.
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- The BBC claimed last night that the question "Who is the Prime Minister?"
- has now been reinstated as part of the sanity check of some mental ward
- or another, after having been removed in the early 80s when people who
- had "obvious problems" started getting the right answer nonetheless.
-