On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, John Forbes wrote: > Didn't one of them die last year? Huge funeral with Victorian > horse-drawn hearse. Very colourful.
Hard to believe, but it was four years ago now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/962612.stm Read it and you realise the Monty Python sketch wasn't satire, it was a documentary :-) Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read, indeed. > Of course, those days aren't over. We still have Van Hoogstraten. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3301361.stm That man is dangerously insane. Not nice at all. Chris

