----- Original Message ----- From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Bird Flu (OT)
> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM > > > > I have been making increasingly > > critical > > > comments about QUANTA on this list and getting no response. Do they > > still > > > exist? There are more elusive than so called *weapons of mass > > destruction. > > > > > > Geoff Wicks > > > > > > * A little bit of politics included to upset Tony. Work out for > > yourself > > > whether I mean Blair or Firshman. > > > > Yes lets keep politics out of it > > Point taken Bill, but I'm sure you'll like this one. After reading this list > I went to the website of Radio Netherlands to pick up their main Dutch > stories. > > As you may know there has been a serious outbreak of bird flu in the > Netherlands, which has led to scenes rather like the foot and mouth crisis. > In one area they had to use asylum seekers to clear up the carcasses which > was difficult to do legally. To solve the problem the local tax inspector > allowed them to use an NI number and register under the name "F Birdflu". > The Society for Hobby Pet Owners (who opposed the slaughter) are now > prosecuting the tax office for criminal acts and forgery. The Ministry of > Finance accepts this should not have happened, but adds that it was a crisis > situation. I Like it, my next vote will go for proportional rights for minorities and extremists, seems to me they have a disproportionate amount of say for their size at the moment. Actually Geoff my comments re politics was meant to be light-hearted with the point that we used to have a great non entity called Lucan, somehow I managed to scramble the mail. All the best - Bill
