[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Looking for British HP "eccentrics"

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At 12:59 04/06/03 , David wrote:
>Richard wrote:
> > I've just had an email followed by a phone call from a journalist
> > (I use the term lightly) :-) from the Sun newspaper.
>
>As a matter of interest, how did he find you?  Do we all need to go
>into hiding on this side of the Atlantic?

The usual "friend of a friend" routine (the two steps were identified and 
verified by me). He was quite friendly although I got the impression that 
the main thrust of his piece is to take the mickey out of whoever agrees to 
sell their story (I'm reminded of the story a while back of the guy who 
spent a fortune designing the interior of his home as a replica of the 
Starship Enterprise and has since been the butt of jokes on more than one 
occasion).

He used the phrase "Great British eccentric" at least twice.  (BTW he's not 
going to embarrass anyone for nothing, if you get my drift...).

>David, who thinks the Sun does some good journalism

Once in a while, yes. But on the whole, whenever I've seen a copy, it's not 
exactly written to the highest standards (there's a reason why sentences in 
the Sun rarely have more than six words of no more than two syllables each...).