--- In [email protected], "Steve Haywood"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> .
>
> 2008/8/7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 07/08/2008 16:17:38 GMT Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Of course more bollards at each lock mooring was out - not only
was it
> > useful to boaters but someone might ask - why now when you say
you have no
> > money.
> > Then someone said they could cover their tracks by inventing a
H&S issue
> >
> >
> > On a similar (but unconnected) tack I understand that, when the
> > Stationery
> > Office were developing a standard range of stationery across the
Civil
> > Service back in 1800 and frozen to death, the envelope
manufacturer sent
> > some
> > samples for approval. Two people who were in charge of the
approval process
> > wrote
> > their initials on the front of the sample before it was sent back
to the
> > manufacturer.
> >
> > I can't remember their actual names, but they were something like
Oliver
> > Holmes and Martin Smith. The manufacturer assumed the initials
had to be
> > printed
> > on the front of every envelope and the letters OHMS duly
appeared. The
> > Stationery Office then had to hurriedly come up with a suitable
name that
> > fitted
> > the letters and came up with the timeless On His/Her Majesty's
Service.
> >
> > Public organisations have had a long history of covering up their
mistakes
> > -
> > some more successful than others!
>
>
> LOL!!! And the reason grass in green is so that it so that it can
hide the
> green Martians. I would love for that story to be true. But sadly
it isn't.
> And neither, I suspect, is the story about the over-ordering of
bollards
> canals which has become a sort of rural myth of the canals. Me, I
love this
> sort of stuff and say keep the stories coming. The world is a
richer place
> with them. Fiction, as I've always said, is truer than fact.
>
> But really Mr Hogg, pick your feet up! It was theWolverhampton 21
you were
> navigating, not Wolverhampton bl**dy High Street.
>
> Steve
>
>
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I've also noticed that the bollards are positioned in direct line of
walk from the back of our boat to the paddles. I merrily walk round
them but might not if in a hurry.
Sue
