On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:46:34 +0100, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of John Forbes >> Sent: 26 October 2006 13:03 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: OT Travelling heads-up >> >> I flew to New York by Pan-Am the day before the same flight >> was blown up >> over Lockerbie. >> >> On my return (the flight was almost empty), security had been >> beefed up: >> >> "What's in that bag?" >> >> "Cameras" >> >> "Oh, that's fine." >> >> Presumably I have an honest face, and the security woman >> thought I would >> admit to carrying bombs if I had been so doing. >> >> John >> > > Famous, but possibly apocryphal, story: > > Oscar Wilde went to the USA on a lecture tour. On entry he had to fill > in a customs declaration which included the question "Is it your > intention to overthrow the government of the United States of > America". Wilde replied "Sole purpose of visit". > > They let him in. > > Bob
Was that the same trip when he was asked if he had anything to declare, and replied: "Nothing but my genius". He was not hampered by modesty. John -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
