Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <ft44m1$a8k$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <fstccv$ek4$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:
>>
>>> Books that look like the reader should love but they don't?
>>>
>>> John Clute's APPLESEED. Lovingly constructed but I'd rather be
>>> beaten with barbed wire before rereading it (Note: I am not the
>>> Formula One boss and this is a figure of speech).
>>
>> "The Formula One boss?" [*]
>
> The president of Formula One's governing body managed to get
> himself videotaped while engaging in a Nazi-themed S&M orgy. What
> makes this even more amusing is that the man in question settled
> on what he does because it was the one field he found where nobody
> knew what his father, Oswald Mosley, was famous for.

The fa****on industry being right out, as Oswald was a well-known (if 
pseudonymous) designer of ladies' underthings.