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ORAC
15th Oct 2021, 11:51
Sir Humphrey is down at the Givernment Archives researching plans for WW3 and has come across this gem.

I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby receiving Bernard’s draft for the minister and coaching him on how to reword it…..

https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1448946700870094905?s=21

NutLoose
15th Oct 2021, 12:12
Ermmm... Link? ahh found it, Twitter links do not show unless i quote the post for some strange reason.

radar101
15th Oct 2021, 12:21
Both of the above blue underlined links appear to work

golfbananajam
15th Oct 2021, 12:30
Notwithstanding the HIG which were liberally strategically located around this great island of ours which the MoD knew about.

safetypee
15th Oct 2021, 12:32
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.

charliegolf
15th Oct 2021, 13:41
Remember to store the artworks upside down. That way you can have a final look as you're kissing your harris goodbye!

CG

WE Branch Fanatic
15th Oct 2021, 13:56
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.

Davef68
17th Oct 2021, 14:42
My dad, a life long civil servant, would have loved that!