From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"RobertB"  wrote in message
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> In article ,
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
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>> "RobertB"  wrote in message
>> >> >
>> > It must be, coz I don't get MRD either. Is that short for
"merde" or
>> > something?
>>
>> You have to go back some on Barktopus for MRD. If memory serves correctly
>> Phil Payne coined that
>>
>> In the words of the immortal Mandy Rice-Davis, "He would say that,
>> wouldn't
>> he".
>
> I don't remember Mandy Rice-Davis. Must have missed him/her.

The sex scandal involving Ms Rice-Davis, Christine Keeler, John Profumo
brought down the conservative British Tory government in 1964

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4792066.stm

Sleaze A picture of Christine Keeler, naked on a chair, became an image of the era.

Sex parties Ms Keeler lived with Stephen Ward at his flat, where he threw
parties for the high-ranking and influential.

Soviet spy Christine Keeler had a fling with Mr Profumo, and had had
relations with a Soviet intelligence officer.

Lies When the affair came to light in March 1963, John Profumo initially
tried to deny it. Ten weeks later he told MPs he had misled them, and quit.

Government Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped down in October 1963
through ill-health, said to be made worse by the Profumo Affair. In 1964
the Tories lost to Labour.

Warheads Christine Keeler later claimed Ward was a Soviet spy and had asked
her to get information from Mr Profumo about nuclear warheads in West
Germany.

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