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

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