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From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Bird Flu (OT)
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Bill Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > - Original Message -
> > From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM
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> > > 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
