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Quoting "James Colville" <jimw7ry@gmail.com>:
> Am I the only one that has issues with this thread? Are we done yet?
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> Jim W7RY
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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:10 AM, DAVE WHITE <mausoptik@btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> Jeff, in some ways Monty Python is a good way to learn about this country
>> - but even Monty Python's Flying Circus couldn't have made up the joke that
>> is our current government.
>>
>> Yes, there were indeed council ratcatchers many years ago. There still
>> are, though they are mainly now private firms - some large, some small.
>> These days councils just employ people to operate speed traps on the road,
>> run Diversity courses and generally burn as much taxpayers' money as they
>> can. I've yet to find one where anything more than a small minority does
>> something really useful - look at The Guardian Newspaper "Society" section
>> to see all the overpaid non-jobs on offer.
>>
>> I believe that in some parts of India there is still a price on the head of
>> each rat that the vermin catchers hand in. I think Calcutta still operates
>> this policy - but I could be wrong.
>>
>> Even more wierdly when I lived in India many years ago there was a place in
>> Rajasthan (about midway between New Delhi and Karachi) where the locals
>> beleive that their ancestors are re-incarnated as rats, so there's a temple
>> full of them and people take food and milk along as offerings.
>>
>> It's worth a look if you're even in that part of the world - in fact India
>> as a whole is the kind of place well worth spending some time around. It's
>> an educational experience to see the different values that people hold and
>> the different way of life. For us Brits it's probably easier to get to
>> know, since (a) we were really one country till 1947 and (b) we have one
>> overwhelming common interest that serves as an ice-breaker in any situation
>> (as it does with Australians): cricket.
>>
>> If I get re-incarneted as a rat, I'll choose the temple at Bikaner - and
>> will sneak into the local cricket ground occasionally to watch....
>>
>> cheers
>> D
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>> --- On Sat, 6/3/10, Jeff Carter <amps@hidden-valley.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jeff Carter <amps@hidden-valley.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] WD-40, snaked, vermin and puddytats
>> To: "DAVE WHITE" <mausoptik@btinternet.com>
>> Date: Saturday, 6 March, 2010, 5:26
>>
>> Everything I know about the UK, I learned from Monty Python.
>>
>> I thought there was a guy called the "Council Ratcatcher" who would come
>> and take care of this sort of thing.
>>
>> Jeff/KD4RBG
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>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:20 AM, DAVE WHITE <mausoptik@btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
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>>
>> we get invaded by mice every autumn. I catch them in the live traps and
>> release them in the next village about 5 miles away, but I swear the bloody
>> things are homing mice.
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>>
>>
>> Mybe I need to appoint a Vermin Control Officer.
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