In a message of 18 Jan 97 Rod Speed wrote to me:


 SH>> Transcript, please.

 RS> On the first call I recognised his name immediately and chose to play
 RS> silly buggers, saying things like 'christ knows what you are talking
 RS> about' when he rabbited on along the lines of 'are you fido point blah
 RS> blah blah'.

 RS> Hung up in his ear.

Should have said your name was Anthony Grigor-Scott, and that you would get
your God to nuke him if he ever accused you of being Rod Speed again.


 RS> He then immediately rang back, and I said 'I suppose its you again is
 RS> it ?' 'you want to be careful about the law on harassing phone calls'.

:-)

 RS> He had been pretty cautious right from the beginning, clearly wasnt at
 RS> all sure if I was the right person or not. He then said 'I just want to
 RS> tell you why I am calling', I said 'I KNOW why you are calling' and told
 RS> him to fuck off and hung up on him again |-)

At least you made him pay the three connection charges.  If he does it
again, tell him to hold on while you get Rod.  Have a cup of tea, wander
down to the pub for a drink, come back and say "he should be here any
minute now..."

 RS> Quite a while later, obviously after having had a long think |-) he rang
 RS> back yet again and immediately said 'this is the last time I will call'
 RS> etc, clearly had him worried.

 RS> By that time I had decided that it would be more amusing to string him
 RS> along for a bit to encourage him to piss his money against the wall with
 RS> the legal parasites on an utterly futile exercise if he was that much of
 RS> a complete prat.

You think he could afford that?

 RS> So I proceeded to put the boot in rather comprehensively, pointing out
 RS> to him that since being a poofter aint illegal anymore, you dont
 RS> actually suffer any defamation if someone remarks on your being a
 RS> poofter and that the High Court had found in favor of free speech
 RS> anyway, and that he had buckleys.

 RS> Called him 'boy' which he got stroppy about, so I used it on the end of
 RS> every single sentence after that |-)

Maybe he's black?


 RS> Pointed out that the tax man might well like to hear about their 'staff
 RS> member' who Andy claims they pay in cash what little they do pay him.

ROFL.

 RS> Then I told him to go and fuck himself and hung up in his ear again.

 RS> Nothing heard since |-)


Jesus, even Banham never tried anything that sad with me.


Scott Hillard          c9520272{at}alinga.newcastle.edu.au                    
                                                                           
                           

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