As first posts go your snakeness, this one could well find itself a Monkey contender. I've been looking at it for a minute now and all kinds of subtleties and questions are emerging. What seemed, on the face of it, the dumbest question I've seen for a while, might have hidden meaning. After all it was posted on the Al Molinaro thread, who, unless someone can prove otherwise, is unlikely to have come anywhere within the Thatcher orbit (defined by the outer reach of her handbag).
Then there are the two question marks. Does this mean there is a question behind the question, a much bigger question implied by the question, or was it simply a slip of the finger?
Finally there is that smiley with the rolling eyes that suggests a certain deliberateness, as if it was posted to provoke exactly this kind of response. Or was it intended to convey irony? If so, I can't find any.
My theory - and some may well scoff at the suggestion - is that you are a relatively green Tory MP, sitting just outside the lobby with your lap top, dreaming of great days past. In your isolation - not yet being one of the boys - you have been surfing on the net and somehow you not only wandered on to the DL but registered with a suitably sexy name reflecting childhood phallic fantasies. Lost in your Tory dreamland you search for the Maggie Thacher thread but stumble by chance on to this one.
Still in this dreamlike (trancelike as a Cobra) state you frame your question which is more wishful thinking. You would dearly like to shout this with all your heart so that it echoes around Westminster, but instead you reach for the rolleyes smiley, click, and there it goes. And not one of your colleagues will ever know.
You don't need an answer because for you, KC, Maggie Thacher will always be around, occupying your spiritual being, guiding those rolling eyes. Am I right or am I wrong?
Welcome to Deathlist.
Godot
Our friend KC registered, posted in an inappropriate place, and immediately left.
Could our visitor have been Lady T herself? On the same principle as the joke about the person who telephoned the home for the terminally bewildered, asked to speak to the resident of Room 123, and on being told that the room was empty replied 'Oh good, that means that I must have escaped'?