On Mon, 17 May 2004 14:20:08 +0100, "west.ender"
wrote:

"Tony Walton" wrote in message
There was a power cut in the pub where I was (plus most of the street)
last Saturday. The manager was busy switching off alarms and doing pubby
[snip]
Old-style it would have gone like this [...]

Thank you Thatcher. Modern life is rubbish - largely due to her.

For all her shortcomings, Thatcher could at least post to Usenet.

She wasn't the sort of pillock to quote near 80 lines of text for a
one line Undergraduate response.