Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol

Alistair wrote:
> On 17 May, 03:23, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
> wrote:
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> I do not know whether HMQE2 was offended or not. I believe that she
> did not see the gesture but that the image would have been brought to
> her attention. Add it to the "Yo! Blair!" and it raises the question
> as to what constitutes the much vaunted special relationship and
> whether the UK should continue to do business with puerile
> democratically elected heads of state when there are some much better
> behaved dictators that we can do business with (eg that nice Robert
> Mugabe of Zimbabwe).
>
There's a famous photograph of our Quebec friend Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
at Buck House I think, doing a dancing pirouette behind QE2's back while
she is talking to some other diplomat.

There was also an incident where Pierre was talking to a crowd and one
young 'Anglo' interloper prefixed his question with, "Well as the Mother
Country.......... ?". P.E.T seethed and replied, "Well it *might* be
your Mother Country but it's not mine !".

Jimmy