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"Mike Lyle" writes:
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| Maggie Thatcher was famous for weeding her vegetables out of the
| cabinet.
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| Actually, the converse was true. Anyone who showed the slightest
| bit of spine (not necessarily hawthorn, as Howes didn't have much
| more than a damson) was weeded out. By the end, there were ONLY
| vegetables left - with sticky willy Whitelaw being the only one
| that anyone knew the name of even at the time.
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| A challenge: name another, and position, at the time she finally
| got the most ancient Order of the Boot.
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| Major, J: Foreign Secretary? Tebbit, N: Barehanded Ratcatcher in
| Ordinary; Howard, M?: Night-Flyer Quite Extraordinary...umm...yep,
| otherwise, you're dead right.

I think that you will find that Tebbit had resigned three years
previously.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.