M. le President est mort. Vive la ...

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Sat, 06 Nov 1999 12:25:22 +0000

    Our hearts go out at this sad time to Camille.  I suggest 
    we allow her a 48 hour silence while she composes 
    her explanation of the way in which all those Australians - 
    longing desperately for a President - were bamboozled 
    into rejecting that fine tribune of the people, Mr Turnbull.

    I wonder did they, at the last moment, remember Hilaire Belloc's 
    cautionary tale of Jim.  We could ALL benefit from the moral:
 
                     'And always keep a hold of Nurse
                     For fear of finding something worse.'

    Scottie B.