. 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
