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Old 15th Oct 2021, 13:56
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Originally Posted by safetypee
Minister writes side note on memo ‘Spherical objects’
Later, Sir Humphrey enquires; ‘who is Spherical, and to what does he object?’

Use a small bothy between Gare Lock and Lock Long.
That is apparently from a story about Churchill towards the end of the War - he wrote 'Round objects' in the margin of a memo, only to be asked by an aide who Round was and why did he object?

I read it here on PPRuNe.
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